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• When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.

  Agnieszka Radwanska

  Practice, People, Lines

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• If you tell God 'no' because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say 'yes' to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience.

  Charles Stanley

  Teaching, Blessing, Heaven

  "Total Surrender". Book by Matthew Terrill, 2014.

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• Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

  Walter Isaacson

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

  Gary Hamel

  Educational, Ecosystems, Cost

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• Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

  Baltasar Gracian

  People, Common, Tragic Endings

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• I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

  David Eagleman

  Afterlife, Joy, Lenses

  "David Eagleman: 'We won't die - our consciousness will live forever on the internet'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  Gail Collins

  Song, Writing, Simple

  "Will Journalism Go the Way of Whaling?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. February 27, 2013.

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• What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

  Harold Bloom

  Color, Hygiene, Suffering

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• Choice matters. You might have the opportunity to eat a nutritious diet, though you might choose to eat a lousy diet. What matters is the opportunity.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Opportunity, Choices, Might

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do, we make a lot of errors, you know, you can't help it. Mistakes all over the place, but out of naïveté or, you know, misplaced kindness or something like that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kindness, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In terms of technology and science, tomorrow does know more than yesterday; but when it comes to emotions, living with uncertainty, terror, I'm not sure we know any more than Shakespeare did, or the Buddha. And the power of new things - the iPhone or Facebook - is so strong and intoxicating that we sometimes forget that none of them can fundamentally change our relation to ourselves and to what matters.

  Pico Iyer

  Strong, Technology, Yesterday

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

  Debi Mazar

  Hero, Passion, Gun

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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  I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

  Vladimir Putin

  Heart, Thinking, Should Have

  Interview with Mike Wallace, en.kremlin.ru. May 9, 2005.

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• I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

  Anne Tyler

  Fun, Thinking, Romantic Movie Love

  "The Accidental Tourist". www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Mother, Dog, Hate

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• I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Children, Italian, Cities

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• How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

  Joe Namath

  Matter, Throwing

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• What matters now, the only thing that matters right now is that whatever you think of the conservative movement and whoever you think is or isn't one, no matter who you think they are, they cannot unify around the concept of beating a Democrat. That's what you have to learn. If that's the movement you want to be part of, then you have at it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Movement, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Doe, World, Matter

  "Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, Interviews Oprah Winfrey Live Online". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• In anything I do I try to stay true to myself because I think that's what matters most, and then the challenge is getting all these different sides of my personality to fit together in one box. It isn't an easy task. But that's basically what the end result represents.

  G-Eazy

  Thinking, Personality, Challenges

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Invest in helping people know what matters to them and who matters to them (and why), and encourage them to continually experiment with how they get things done in ways the serve their interests and yours as an employer.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  People, Done, Way

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• This stuff doesn't matter. What matters is what you do with it." Sara snaps the highlighter cap on. "I try not to think about how boring it is (History). I just keep reminding myself about how I want my life to be and what I have to do to get there. Then it's simple.

  Susane Colasanti

  Simple, Thinking, Trying

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “When It Happens”, p.171, Scholastic UK

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• Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

  Tiger Woods

  Honesty, Golf, Achievement

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• What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

  Victor Hugo

  Mind, Ears, Deafness

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• It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

  Erich Fromm

  Use, Matter, Persons

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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