What Matters Quotes - Page 18

• I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

  Claire Messud

  Believe, Writing, World

  "Claire Messud and Robin Desser". Interview with Robin Desser, www.slate.com. May 3, 2013.

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• What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

  Frank Luntz

  Issues, Personality, Who You Are

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• I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's what matters. But it wasn't that great for me because it was kinda like going back into the old times without the guy.

  Bill Kreutzmann

  Integrity, Play, Guy

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• Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

  Melanie Fiona

  Artist, Rocks, People

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• What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

  Ted Dekker

  Real, Two, Layers

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• I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

  Jean Dujardin

  People, Labels, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Wise, Eye, College

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• Being strong, showing that you will see things through no matter what comes your way, that's what matters most to me.

  Cat Zingano

  Strong, Ufc, Mma

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• I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now.

  El-P

  Who I Am, Trying, Adults

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  People, World, Care

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.

  Dana Gioia

  May, Remember, Poet

  "Paradigms Lost", interview with Gloria Brame, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum, Spring 1995.

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• What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead?
  No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled.
  Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread
  To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Fighting, Fire, Poetry

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

  Michael Dirda

  Kindness, Ambition, Ordinary

  "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

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• Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, Insignificant Things, Schemes

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

  Henri Matisse

  Running, Hands, Able

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• Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.

  Robert B. Parker

  Views, People, Community

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• What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, People, Needs

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make.

  Stephen Covey

  Meaningful, Commitment, Years

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• Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love You, Mind, My Love For You

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Knowing what matters most, what I call "being real," is the alpha and omega for leaders.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Real, Knowing, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Father, Thrones

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.784, Bantam

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• You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside.

  Miley Cyrus

  Needs, Littles, Bigs

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• Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very situations and thoughts and feelings that make the novel worthwhile, the worse I feel, and the more likely I am to be severely depressed when the book is finished. There is no avoiding this: it is the result of attempting to tell all you know, to reach for the stars, to write what matters.

  Anne Rice

  Stars, Book, Character

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• To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.

  James Patterson

  Love Is, Grace, Without Love

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• Love is always master everywhere. It shapes the soul, the heart, and the mind wherever it exists. What matters is not the amount of love, but simply its existence in the mind and heart where it resides. And it truly appears that love is to the soul of the lover as the soul itself is to the body which it animates.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Heart, Love Is, Soul

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