Matters Quotes
-
In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
James Hutton
-
He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
Cutting down on water use doesn't mean cutting down on outdoor activities or neglecting your lawn. These are simple steps that keep water use low when it matters the most.
John Young
-
For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
Seth Godin
-
With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.
Galileo Galilei
-
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
-
Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
-
Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
-
From my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say. It mattered that we got Bin Laden, not the name we called him.
Hillary Clinton
-
You can make yourself crazy, refiguring it all after the fact. You did what you thought was best at the time. You helped a friend. That’s what matters.
Craig Lancaster
-
But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be. Someone honest or deceitful?Someone kind or cruel?Someone loyal or unfaithful? In any profession we can elect to be any of those things. I think this assignment is not only about what we choose to do but about who we choose to be. I choose to always be loyal to myself.
Ellen Schreiber
-
The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.
Michael Easton
-
Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
Napoleon Bonaparte
-
There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.
Alfie Kohn
-
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.
Confucius
-
I don't know how you're standing here. Yet you haven't broken. Not where it matters. Having come this far, I'm not sure you can be broken.
Brandon Mull
-
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
George Bernard Shaw
-
You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.
Nicholas Sparks
-
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.
Aristotle
-
Iverson: Man look, I hear you... it's funny to me too, I mean it's strange... it's strange to me too, but we're talking about practice man, we're not even talking about the game... the actual game, when it matters... We're talking about practice ...
Allen Iverson
-
I will do that. Everything that matters right now is that I'm with the Cubs, and I'm in a good position now. I don't have to get hurt. Like I said, my main concern is to be with the Cubs and help the Cubs.
Carlos Zambrano
-
All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.
Michael Ende
-
I want to do something that matters.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
-
I don't care if I ever hit radio, and I don't care if I ever get any bigger than this. I just wanna stand up for artistry because that's what really matters in music
Christofer Drew