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• What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

  Ezra Pound

  Believe, Ideas, Capacity

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• The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.

  Pat Martino

  Grateful, Guitar, People

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• But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Pain, Loss, Fate

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• Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

  Marissa Mayer

  Missing, Protect, Rhythm

  "Marissa Mayer: Six life lessons from Yahoo CEO" by Rose Hoare, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

  Kamala Harris

  Hype, Should, Caught

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• I always want to have a new challenge involved. I need to put myself to the test, and if I make mistakes, it doesn't matter. What matters to me, instead, is making my dreams come true and putting them on display.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Dream, Mistake, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Dark, Community, Waiting

  Alasdair MacIntyre (1981). “After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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• Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Discovery, Life Is, Process

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• What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

  Carlo Collodi

  School, Lessons, Donkey

  Carlo Collodi (2015). “Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

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• We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.

  Rachel Cohn

  Music, Heart, Race

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• What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Forever, Matter, Lasts

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• But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Giving Up, Good Times, Sometimes

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.178, Penguin

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• There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.

  Barry Webster

  Men, Connections, Should

  Barry Webster (2012). “The Lava in My Bones”, p.88, arsenal pulp press

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• You are asking, 'Is the concept of soul mates more useful than marriage?' Concepts don't matter. What matters is your understanding. You can change the word marriage to the word soul mates, but you are the same. You will make the same hell out of soul mates as you have been making out of marriage - nothing has changed, only the word, the label. Don't believe in labels too much.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Believe, Understanding

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• Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period, even though we’re unaware of what it is. And later, when they say that young men in the early Taisho era thought, dressed, talked, in such and such a way, they’ll be talking about you and me. We’ll all be lumped together…. In a few decades, people will see you and the people you despise as one and the same, a single entity.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, Talking, People

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• What matters is the face you show the world, not the quaking mess behind it.

  Rachel Vincent

  World, Faces, Shows

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Shadow Bound”, p.74, MIRA

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• We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Destiny, Moments

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• For the user, it doesn't matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity, and as a technology provider, our job is to hide the complexity of the technology.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Jobs, Technology, Complexity

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• Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Racism, Social Pressure

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• There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Prayer, Nice

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• ..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Business, Philosophy

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• The reason to consider life and what's of value is to make sure you're not missing out. Seize the day. What's important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that. Forget the rest.

  Brittany Maynard

  Emotional, Missing, Important

  "CNN Newsroom" with Brooke Baldwin, edition.cnn.com. October 8, 2014.

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• At the heart of it all, Passion exists to see a generation stake their lives on what matters most. For us, that's the fame of the One who rescues and restores, and the privilege we have to fully leverage our lives by amplifying His name in everything we do.

  Louie Giglio

  Passion, Heart, Names

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• The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Long, Safety, Safe

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• Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

  John Wooden

  Character, May, Reputation

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden's Complete Guide to Leadership (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.13, McGraw-Hill Professional

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