What Matters Quotes - Page 19

• Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Knowing, Trying

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• The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  People, Problem, Whole

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.147, Penguin

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• So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Long, Live Your Life

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

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• Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Mean, Keys

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

  Oliver Stone

  Heart, Matter, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Successful, Matter

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.87, Penguin

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• You're going to die. That's going to happen. What matters is what you do with your time before you get flushed out.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Matter, Happens, Dies

  "Dick Van Dyke: Icon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 14, 2016.

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• In my teaching and consulting practice, I encourage people to learn to experiment with confidence and to see themselves as scientists in the laboratory of their lives, continually trying new ways to pursue what matters most to them and to the people who depend on them. Smart, small wins are crucial to this approach, as is devoting time and attention to reflecting on what works and what doesn't.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Smart, Teaching, Winning

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at first glance make sense to the market leader.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Market Leaders, People, Firsts

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. The end result is what matters. What one felt was what one experienced. One retires to bed as wearily from having dreamed as from having done hard physical labor. One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Journey, Soul

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• Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

  Jeff Bezos

  Dollars, Percentages, Multiple

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• The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.

  Peter Drucker

  Race, Leader, Suffering

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.3, Routledge

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• Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.

  Sheri Reynolds

  Hurt, Healing, Looks

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• She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?

  Melissa Marr

  Night, Together, Faces

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• Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot.

  Tim Bevan

  Foundation, Scripts, Shots

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• when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Art, Kind, Pleasure

  Marion Dane Bauer (1992). “What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

  Bonnie Hammer

  Perfect One, Entertainment, World

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• What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Commitment, Obsession, Genuine

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• Enter into the activities of the world, without getting overjoyed by success or totally put out by failure. Whether they love you or hate you, it doesn't much matter. What matters is stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Hate, Love You

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• Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?

  Joe Mantello

  Believe, Redemption, Answers

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• You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Two, Smell, Rose

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”

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• How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.

  Po Bronson

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and see what youre capable of. Your true goal is not to conquer fifty feet of inanimate rock, but to expand your abilities through learning.

  Arno Hintjens

  Rocks, Feet, Goal

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• Dude, what matters is if you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us.

  A.S. King

  Caring, Thinking, People

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• All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Spring, Autumn

  Ray Bradbury (2002). “I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Salmon Publishing

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