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• Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.

  Ted Alexandro

  Gains, Want, Express Yourself

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy. It doesn't matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth.

  Sara Gran

  Crazy, Heart, Thinking

  Sara Gran (2011). “Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

  Gautama Buddha

  Desire, Truth Is, Untruth

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• Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Dream, Hard Work, Passion

  Diane von Furstenberg (2015). “The Woman I Wanted to Be”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren,
  What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes,
  Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen -
  The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Queens, Eye, Angel

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• Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years on this issue has shown there is no difference between children who are raised by same-sex parents and children who are raised by opposite-sex parents. What matters is that children are being raised in a stable, loving environment.

  Mary Cheney

  Sex, Children, Years

  "Mary Cheney defends same-sex parenthood / Vice president's lesbian daughter says baby not 'prop'" by Katharine Q. Seelye, www.sfgate.com. February 2, 2007.

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• What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

  Gore Vidal

  America, Long, Arrogance

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.

  Jason Spezza

  Winning, Player, Want

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• No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.

  Kate Brian

  Past, Next Day, Dwelling

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• What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

  Richard Branson

  Differences, Making A Difference, Investment

  Richard Branson (2008). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin Pub

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• All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Fiction, Stories

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1200, Macmillan

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• some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Color, People

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• Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Storm, Captains, Ships

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• What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.

  Max Beckmann

  Real, Secret, World

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• Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Matter, Happens, Dies

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• It doesn't matter the numbers, it doesn't matter the records, it doesn't matter the money that you make. What matters is to raise that trophy and to be able to bring that smile to the city of St. Louis.

  Albert Pujols

  Cities, Numbers, Records

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• We think of Craigslist as a form of Social Media.We provide a simple service that is mostly free and we leave money in the community, instead of taking it away. Shared values, nothing fancy, treating people like we want to be treated. What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.

  Craig Newmark

  Technology, Simple, Thinking

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• In a crisis, stocks of financial companies are great investments, because the tide is bound to turn. Massive losses on bad loans and soured investments are irrelevant to value; improving trends and future prospects are what matter, regardless of whether profits will have to be used to cover loan losses and equity shortfalls for years to come.

  Seth Klarman

  Loss, Years, Trends

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• What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power.

  Charlie Munger

  Passion, People, Brain

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• It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake, Writing, Long

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2006). “The Best of Sherlock Holmes: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.7, Prestwick House Inc

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• What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Lasts, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 23, 2014

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• I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

  Louise Penny

  Beautiful, Pain, Tired

  Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.186, Macmillan

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• Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.

  Bell Hooks

  Empowering, Desire, Negative

  bell hooks, Amalia Mesa-Bains (2017). “Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism”, p.74, Routledge

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• What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination

  Gary Hamel

  Imagination, Return, Investment

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• Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters. And who matters is a function of what matters. [If] what matters is intelligence, the people who matter are the intelligent, and the people who matter the most, the heroes, are the geniuses.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Hero, Intelligent, People

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