What Matters Quotes - Page 17

• in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

  Alison Lurie

  Art, Real, Hands

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• I always feel like I'm rehearsing. I'm a workaholic. But youve got to let go and trust and enjoy! I'm a real perfectionist. Its probably my biggest disadvantage. But as long as I can go out there, trust in the work and just have fun, thats what matters.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Letting Go, Fun, Real

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• whereas in childhood ... it was the parents' judgement that mattered to the child, later on the situation becomes reversed: it is then that the opinions of one's grown-up children become what matters, as well as their kindness.

  Iris Origo

  Children, Kindness, Childhood

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• Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.

  Ted Cruz

  Integrity, Principles, Sticks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Thinking, Cycling

  "Lance Armstrong says turn back time and he would 'probably' dope again". Interview with Brendan Trembath, www.abc.net.au. January 27, 2015.

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• What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Moon, Quality, Razors

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• What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Fun, Eye

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• Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can. We come from different parties, but we are Americans first. And that's why disagreement cannot mean dysfunction. It can't degenerate into hatred. The American people's hopes and dreams are what matters, not ours. Our obligations are to them. Our regard for them compels us all, Democrats and Republicans, to cooperate, and compromise, and act in the best interests of our nation –- one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Country, Jobs

  "Obama may have won now, but next three years could be tough" by Leigh Ann Caldwell, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2013.

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• We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Past, Men

  Plato (1952). “Plato's Statesman”

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• What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment powers that tell us what to think, what to wear, how to behave, what to believe in and what goes beyond the line of rational and irrational thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Buddhism, Thinking

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• I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.

  Gordon Brown

  Country, Strong, Queens

  "Gordon Brown's First Speech as Prime Minister". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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• To see them succeed, to see them improve, that is what matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Rama, Succeed

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• What matters is to aid others, to have a group dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Groups, Aids

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• A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Gay, Thinking

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• David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.

  Gordon Brown

  School, Doctors, Views

  "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite" by Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary and Philip Webster, The Times, May 26, 2000.

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• A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

  Cesare Pavese

  Suffering, World, Spirit

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.78, Transaction Publishers

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• However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Heart, Might, Way

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• What matters is the imaginative truth.

  Edna O'Brien

  Matter, Imaginative

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• God doesn't expect us to perform for him. He loves us always-when we're disappointed or hurt or making a mess of things. Sometimes we speak to him in a language that only he can understand. What matters to him is that we are vulnerable, that we are completely ourselves. We are work, too, but God cherishes us.

  Luci Swindoll

  God, Hurt, Language

  Patsy Clairmont, Barbara Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll (1998). “The Joyful Journey”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Giving, Permission

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Dec 21, 2013

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• Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Thinking, Light

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.64, Profile Books

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• At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

  Ray William Johnson

  Smart, Phones, The End Of The Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

  Michael Bassey

  Way, Capacity, Left Behind

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• I think that being a gentleman is what matters; taking them out to a nice dinner, open the doors, stuff like that.

  Justin Bieber

  Nice, Thinking, Doors

  "Justin Bieber: My mom is my Valentine". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 11, 2010.

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• For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

  Eli Broad

  Successful, The End Of The Day, Needs

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