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• We’re all just ingredients. What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Grace, Meals, Ingredients

  Erica Bauermeister (2010). “The Monday Night Cooking School”, p.103, Penguin UK

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• What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

  Stephen Covey

  Priorities, Doe, Ifs

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience--the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.

  Arianna Huffington

  Hard Work, Resilience, Important

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• I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an ok person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Two, People

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• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Men, Hours

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Atheist, Compassion, Doe

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• It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Giving, World, Where You Come

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• Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and who else?
  The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!

  Robert Musil

  Plato, Men, Grace

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• What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.

  Craig Newmark

  Technology, People, Use

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• What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.

  Sophia Bush

  Giving, Soul, Attention

  Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.

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• The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

  Edouard Manet

  Fashion, Matter, Painting

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• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Children, Independent, Intelligent

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• Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well.

  Muriel Barbery

  Building, Wells, Mere

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2013.

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• No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.

  India.Arie

  Thinking, No Matter What, Think Of You

  Song: Get It Together

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• What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us

  Rick Warren

  Matter, Life Is, Happens

  Rick Warren, Dr. Daniel Amen, Dr. Mark Hyman (2013). “The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life”, p.64, Zondervan

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• What matters most is that each picture stands on its own with its own place and feeling.

  Steve McCurry

  Feelings, Matter

  "Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress". Interview with Paul Gillin, www.socialmediatoday.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.

  Jason Giambi

  Inspirational, Winning, Priorities

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• Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

  Alastair Humphreys

  Country, Stars, Sleep

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• Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.

  Andy Stanley

  Matter, Draws

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2013

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• We should all develop the mind to rejoice in, praise and share in the gift of those who have artistic talents and a richness of heart, whether they achieve wide recognition or not. Cultivating such a beautiful mind is a very worthy effort. Culture and art are not just decorations. They are not just accessories. What matters is whether culture enriches the essential substance of our lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Art, Effort

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• How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

  John Maeda

  Cities, Progress, Benefits

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• Things change when you have children; your priorities change.

  Joe Namath

  Children, Priorities, Things Change

  Interview with Beverly Keel, americanprofile.com. January 23, 2005.

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• Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

  Pema Chodron

  Achieve, Caught, Situation

  Pema Chodron (2007). “Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.

  Kelly McGonigal

  People, Failing, Resolution

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• Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

  Socrates

  Joy, Victory, Firsts

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