What Matters famous quotes
04-17-2025
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As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
-- A. N. Wilson -
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 -
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.
-- Adam Rickitt -
Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
-- Adyashanti -
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 -
Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.
-- Alan Rosenberg -
When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.
-- Albert Houtum-Schindler -
As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
-- Alfie Kohn -
[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?
-- Alfred de Musset -
in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
-- Alison Lurie -
What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience.
-- Andreas Feininger -
Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.
-- Andy Stanley -
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
-- Angela Carter -
We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
-- Angelina Grimke -
The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity, You know what you live for and what matters.
-- Angelina Jolie -
What matter is the information, not what you think about it.
-- Anna Politkovskaya -
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.
-- Anne Enright -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.
-- Bell Hooks -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.
-- Bonnie Hammer -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.
-- Caroline Myss -
Being strong, showing that you will see things through no matter what comes your way, that's what matters most to me.
-- Cat Zingano -
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 -
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 -
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
-- Charles Saatchi -
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 -
Be true to what matters most to your heart.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
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 -
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 -
Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.
-- Christophe Agou -
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 -
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
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 -
We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.
-- Confucius -
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 -
My body has changed and it will continue change in the future — 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 -
You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
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 -
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 -
What matters is how many times you get up.
-- Daniel James Brown -
What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
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 -
In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.
-- David Horowitz -
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 -
You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.
-- David Neeleman -
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 -
Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.
-- David Robinson -
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 -
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 -
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 -
What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!
-- Donald Trump -
What matters most is that we learn from living.
-- Doris Lessing -
It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.
-- Dr. Seuss -
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 -
Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?
-- E. C. Bentley -
The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.
-- Edouard Manet -
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 -
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 -
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
-- Elias Canetti -
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 -
It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
-- Elizabeth Kolbert -
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 -
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 -
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 -
We’re all just ingredients. What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal.
-- Erica Bauermeister -
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the ***** way with what matters.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.
-- Ernie Davis -
The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
-- Evelyn Underhill -
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 -
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-- Ezra Pound -
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 -
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
