What Matters Quotes - Page 6

• Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Cash Flow, Entrepreneur

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.69, Routledge

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• You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your kids, or anybody - because we're all innocent of the fact that we are the way we are. But it also means the ways that you coped, and the languages and narratives and points of view that you had no choice but to make from the sidelines - and that often carried with them really acute readings of dominant society - those no longer have the same need.

  Todd Haynes

  Reading, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• It does not matter how many talents we have, what matters is how we use them.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Doe, Use, Talent

  Paul H. Dunn (1977). “You & Your World”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

  Rajneesh

  Shoes, Creating, Creative

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• How a club is run is what matters to me. The fewer board members, the better. If it's 18, I'm just not interested.

  Ernst Happel

  Running, Boards, Clubs

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• What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

  Katherine Center

  Disappointment, Matter, Response

  Interview with Angie Mizzell, angiemizzell.com. June 16, 2009.

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• The journey is made easier when we can accept that the process of living is designed for what matters to come through us tenderly.

  Mark Nepo

  Journey, Accepting, Easier

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Jul 15, 2015

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• What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Matter, Behinds

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• Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Kindness, Simple, Essence

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• Don't be so concerned about the size of your next step....The direction is what matters!

  Joseph Simmons

  Next Steps, Size, Concerned

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• Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

  Anne Rice

  Matter, Increase

  Anne Rice (2009). “The Vampire Armand: The Vampire Chronicles 6”, p.175, Random House

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• We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.

  Steve Daines

  Coffee, Cups, Chance

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• What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.

  Josh Lucas

  Journey, Keys, Creative

  "Josh Lucas on American Psycho, Russell Crowe, and the disastrous Poseidon set". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. August 27, 2015.

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• You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

  Rebecca Solnit

  Style, Pleasure, Preacher

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If an audience finds themselves paying attention to how you made your film, you're sunk because that means they're unplugged from your story. What matters is what's unfolding on the screen, not how you put it there. It doesn't matter if it's red triangles or million dollar software if the audience doesn't care.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Mean, Red, Dollars

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Different, Actors, Way

  "Jake Gyllenhaal Interview, Nightcrawler". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October, 2014.

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• By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?

  William Morris

  Judging, Matter, Way

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.

  Martha Beck

  New Year, Gratitude, Years

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• Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.

  David McCullough

  College, Advantage, More Time

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• Having the right message is what matters. It's not who you reach, it's what you say.

  Roy H. Williams

  Matter, Messages

  Roy H. Williams (2012). “The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires”, p.33, BookBaby

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• An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Atheist, Belief, Ethical

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• I don't think Christ would give a hoot whether you mentioned Christ to them or not. What matters - I'm speaking arrogantly and absurdly - to him is, are you living the kind of life that I embodied? Whether you believe in Christ or don't, who cares?

  Frederick Buechner

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well?

  Jason Fried

  People, Care, Building Something

  "37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady". Interview with David Zax, www.fastcompany.com. August 29, 2012.

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• From a philosophical perspective, I want to fight off isolationism and protectionism, be it part of another voice out there that says, wait a minute, what matters to women in Afghanistan matters to America. An isolationist point of view says it doesn't matter. The articulation of "all life matters" helps frame the case that it does matter what happens to a woman in Afghanistan.

  George W. Bush

  Philosophical, Fighting, Views

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• What you say is what matters.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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