100+ What Matters Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

topic: Real, Writing, What Matters

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

topic: Life, Knowing, What Matters

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

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

topic: Fun, Thinking, What Matters, Romantic Movie Love, How Much You Love Someone

What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.

- Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

topic: What Matters, People, Unesco

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

topic: Feet, What Matters, Rocks

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Mistake, What Matters, Long, Bad Mistake

Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: What Matters, Data, Mosaics

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

- Ashley Judd

topic: Past, What Matters, Giving, Choices You Make

What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

topic: Children, What Matters, Rights

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

topic: What Matters, People, Common, Endings Being New Beginnings, Beginnings And Endings

We are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth or status or power or fame, but rather how well we have Loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

- Barack Obama

topic: What Matters, People, Fleeting

I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.

- Barack Obama

topic: Caring, What Matters, Names

All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

- Basil Bunting

topic: What Matters, Jugs, Looks

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

- Bernard Crick

source: Bernard Crick (2013). “In Defence of Politics”, p.129, A&C Black

topic: Men, What Matters, Acting, Insincerity

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions,

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Passion, What Matters, Swim

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

topic: Integrity, What Matters, Play, Old Time

What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Knowledge, Men, What Matters

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

- Bonnie Hammer

topic: What Matters, Perfect, World, Perfect One

He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

- Boris Pasternak

topic: Life, What Matters, People

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

- Brian Eno

topic: Writing, What Matters, Atmosphere, Modern Music

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

- Brian Michael Bendis

topic: Fun, What Matters, Drawing

The reason to consider life and what's of value is to make sure you're not missing out. Seize the day. What's important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that, forget the rest.

- Brittany Maynard

source: "CNN Newsroom" with Brooke Baldwin, edition.cnn.com. October 8, 2014.

topic: Emotional, What Matters, Missing, Do You Care

It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

- Bruce Willis

topic: What Matters, People, Alive

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Perseverance, Hard Times, What Matters

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

- Carlo Collodi

source: Carlo Collodi (2015). “Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

topic: School, What Matters, Lessons

My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart.

- Carlo Maria Giulini

topic: Real, Heart, What Matters, Real Friendship, Music Making

It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.

- Caroline Myss

topic: What Matters, Energy, Matter

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

- Cat Zingano

topic: Strong, What Matters, Ufc

A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: What Matters, Suffering, World

What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been as they should have been, that it is time to stop and see how they truly are. The making known of malfeasance, whether by the arrest or surrender of the miscreant, or by one of those other forms of confession, flight or suicide, is important as a signal that the euphoria has been overdone. The stage of overtrading may well come to an end. The curtain rises on revulsion, and perhaps discredit.

- Charles P. Kindleberger

topic: Suicide, What Matters, Important, Malfeasance, Revulsion

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

- Charles Saatchi

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

topic: Art, What Matters, Schemes, Insignificant Things

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. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Teaching, Blessing, What Matters

Be true to what matters most to your heart.

- Cheryl Richardson

topic: Heart, Law Of Attraction, What Matters

Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?

- Chris Brogan

topic: What Matters, People, Who Cares

The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters.

- Chrissie Wellington

source: Chrissie Wellington (2012). “A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey”, p.120, Hachette UK

topic: Journey, What Matters, Keys

Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.

- Christophe Agou

topic: Photography, What Matters, Two, Two Different Things

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

topic: Believe, Writing, What Matters, Ideal World

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

topic: What Matters, Collecting, Century

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

- Clay Aiken

topic: Honesty, What Matters, Who I Am, Freckles

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

- Confucius

topic: What Matters, Important, Busy

One must be frank to be relevant.

- Corazon Aquino

topic: What Matters, Relevant, Frank

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

topic: Technology, What Matters, People

My body has changed and it will continue change in the future â€” that is natural for anyone. What matters to me most is that even though external change is inevitable, my passion for encouraging women to love themselves at any size and to live, thrive, and to go after their dreams is a part of my permanent nature. Even though my body and mind may evolve through life and experience, my values on this matter have not.

- Crystal Renn

topic: Dream, Passion, What Matters, Change Is Inevitable

You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.

- Czeslaw Milosz

topic: What Matters, Trying, Matter

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

- Daisaku Ikeda

topic: Destiny, What Matters, Moments

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

topic: Beautiful, Art, What Matters, Beautiful Mind, Artistic Talent

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

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

topic: What Matters, May, Remember

What matters is how many times you get up.

- Daniel James Brown

source: Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys In The Boat”, p.201, Pan Macmillan

topic: What Matters, Matter

What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.

- David Ben-Gurion

source: An "oft-repeated credo" according to the "Windsor Star", December 3, 1973.

topic: What Matters, Goyim, Matter

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

topic: What Matters, Afterlife, Joy

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

- David Horowitz

topic: What Matters, Matter, Action

I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.

- David Levithan

topic: Believe, What Matters, Feels

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

- David O. Selznick

topic: What Matters, Religion, Generations, Continuity Of Life

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

- David Robinson

topic: Basketball, What Matters, Defense

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

- David Shore

topic: Lying, What Matters, Focus, Everybody Lies

In the (film) industry, body size doesn't matter. What matters is how much an actor contributes through his performance and not his body size. It is important that every person should wear clothes that go with their body - the cut, the fabric make a lot of difference.

- Deepika Padukone

topic: Cutting, What Matters, Differences, Size Doesn't Matter

one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?

- Dervla Murphy

topic: What Matters, Race, Sick

What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!

- Donald Trump

topic: What Matters, Goal, Focus

What matters most is that we learn from living.

- Doris Lessing

source: "Permission to Play: Taking Time to Renew Your Smile". Book by Jill Murphy Long, 2003.

topic: Life, Witty, What Matters

It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: What Matters, Matter

What matters is performances, regardless of what the name is, whether it's The Rock - which is my nickname and people call me that all the time - it's no big deal. So, whether it's The Rock or Dwayne Johnson, in terms of being recognised I just think that the goal is to be recognised as a good actor. I don't put much thought or weight into the name, or the name change, or what it is, or what does it mean? It's just a nickname.

- Dwayne Johnson

topic: Mean, Thinking, What Matters, Name Changes

Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?

- E. C. Bentley

source: E. C. Bentley (2015). “The Woman in Black”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

topic: What Matters, Judging, World

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

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

topic: What Matters, Who I Am, Trying

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

- Eli Broad

topic: Successful, What Matters, The End Of The Day

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

- Elias Canetti

topic: Creativity, Ideas, What Matters

The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head..He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life.

- Elisabeth Elliot

topic: Stars, What Matters, Hair, Changing My Life

Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

- Ellen Kushner

topic: Real, Dark, What Matters, Grounding, Gifted Writers

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

- Emily Giffin

topic: Inspirational, What Matters, Perfection, Perfectionism

It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.

- Emma Thompson

topic: Weekend, What Matters, Sometimes

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the ***** way with what matters.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: What Matters, Matter, Way

Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.

- Ernie Davis

topic: Football, What Matters, Games, American Football

The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

- Evelyn Underhill

topic: What Matters, Long, Safe

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

- Ewan McGregor

topic: Drinking, What Matters, Smoking, Stop Drinking

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

- Ezra Pound

topic: Inspirational, Men, What Matters, Power Of Belief, Belief In Self

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

topic: Journey, Thinking, What Matters, Contemplative, Thinking Hard

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

- Frances Perkins

source: Frances Perkins, Joseph Paul St. Sure (1965). “Two views of American labor”

topic: Government, What Matters, Giving, Jurisdiction

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

- Francis Chan

source: Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.93, David C Cook

topic: What Matters, Purpose, Definitions, Crazy Love Book

We are each given different gifts and talents by our Master. The thing that matters most is how we use what we have been given, not how much we make or do compared to someone else. What matters is that we spend ourselves.

- Francis Chan

topic: What Matters, Different, Gifts And Talents

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

topic: What Matters, Issues, Personality

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

- Frantz Fanon

source: Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Block, Issues, What Matters, Redistribution Of Wealth

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

- Frantz Fanon

topic: What Matters, World, Matter

It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

- Gabourey Sidibe

topic: What Matters, Perfect, World

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: "Magical realism ... and fakery" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2001.

topic: Life, What Matters, Inspire, Cholera

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

topic: Educational, What Matters, Ecosystems

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

- Gary L. Francione

topic: Animal, What Matters, Racism, Francione, Social Pressure

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

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Fear, Father, What Matters, Clash Of Kings, Song Of Ice And Fire

I am a person who looks long-term, and I recognize the path we need to take. There will be moments when people are unhappy and disgruntled with some decision-making. Nonetheless, what matters most is to reach the destination. And my job as President is to see clearly where I want to go and be steadfast in my resolve to realize that vision

- George W. Bush

topic: Jobs, What Matters, Long, Disgruntled

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.

- Gerald Chertavian

topic: What Matters, People, Taught

Limitation is the condition of our lives. What matters â€” what allows us to reach beyond ourselves, as we are, and push at the boundaries of our ability â€” is that we continue. But then everything depends on how we practice, what we practice.

- Glenn Kurtz

source: Glenn Kurtz (2008). “Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music”, p.241, Vintage

topic: What Matters, Practice, Boundaries

The things that matter the most in this world, they can never be held in our hand.

- Gloria Gaither

topic: What Matters, Hands, World

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

- Gordon Brown

topic: Father, What Matters, Matter, Nothing Matters

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

- H. G. Wells

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

topic: Motivational, Memorable, What Matters, Inspirational Attitude, My Attitude

The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.

- Hal Urban

topic: Honesty, Character, What Matters, Test Scores, Treating Others

When I think of the value that i appreciate and the value that I create, what matters to me most is how much I love people, and how much the people that I love love me.

- Hank Green

topic: Thinking, What Matters, People

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

topic: Hygiene, What Matters, Color, Human Suffering

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Heart, What Matters, Firsts

And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

- Holly Goldberg Sloan

source: Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin

topic: Fall, What Matters, Nine, Just Being There

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

- Howard Zinn

topic: What Matters, White, House, White House

Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!

- Hugo Chavez

topic: Beautiful, Men, What Matters

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

- India.Arie

topic: Thinking, What Matters, Matter

whereas in childhood ... it was the parents' judgement that mattered to the child, later on the situation becomes reversed: it is then that the opinions of one's grown-up children become what matters, as well as their kindness.

- Iris Origo

topic: Children, Kindness, What Matters

We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.

- Isaac Marion

source: Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

topic: What Matters, Matter, Next

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

- Italo Calvino

topic: Hate, Writing, What Matters

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

- J. I. Packer

topic: What Matters, Analysis, Lasts

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Life, Positive, What Matters, Very Good Life, Ancient Wisdom

In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters

- James Frey

topic: What Matters, Mind, Awful, Million Little Pieces, Obituary

It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.

- Jan Kott

source: Jan Kott (2015). “Shakespeare, Our Contemporary”, p.90, Doubleday

topic: What Matters, Doe, Matter

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

- Janet Burroway

source: "Janet Burroway talks about writing lives". The Chicago Manual of Style Interview, cmosshoptalk.com. April 4, 2014.

topic: What Matters, Practice, Imaginative, Publication

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

- Jason Giambi

topic: Winning, What Matters, Priorities

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

- Jean Dujardin

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

topic: What Matters, People, Labels, Estimation

What matters to me is my own estimation, and Im very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what Ive done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.

- Jean Dujardin

topic: Christian, Hard Work, What Matters

Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.

- Jeff Buckley

source: "Jeff Buckley: Remembered". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1999.

topic: Pain, Gun, What Matters, Destroying Things

What matters most is how you live your life, not what you have to show for it.

- Jenny Sanford

source: Jenny Sanford (2010). “Staying True”, p.117, Ballantine Books

topic: What Matters, Live Your Life, Matter

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

- Jeremy Renner

source: "Jeremy Renner Talks James Gray’s LOW LIFE; Says Steve McQueen Biopic Will Focus More on Personal Aspect than Stunts". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 1, 2011.

topic: What Matters, Long, Growing, Learning And Growing

Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.

- Jerry I. Porras

source: "Success Built to Last: Creating A Life That Matters". Book by Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson, 2006.

topic: Success, Running, What Matters, Organizational Structure, Business Models

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Anger, What Matters, Choices

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters, Making Tough Decisions, Decisions Made

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.