Matters Quotes

• 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
  • Time
  • Best
  • Helped

• 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
  • Happens
  • State
  • Matters

• Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Taste
  • Matters
  • Noises

• It matters not how long we live but how.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Long
  • Matters

• 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
  • Work
  • Matter
  • Connection

• In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

  

  James Hutton
  • Science
  • Desires
  • Matters

• It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Matters
  • Cultivated
  • Philologically

• 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
  • Broken
  • Matters
  • Sure

• 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
  • Game
  • Funny
  • Practice

• 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
  • Music
  • Friendship
  • Making

• Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Matters
  • Stay
  • Tuileries

• 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
  • Matters
  • Concerns
  • Entrusted

• 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
  • Future
  • Choose
  • Profession

• Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Matters
  • Dare
  • One Thing

• 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
  • Help
  • Position
  • Concerned

• There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • motivation
  • Matters
  • Amount

• We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Discussion
  • Press
  • Objects

• While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Cells
  • Prisons
  • Occupy

• 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
  • Music
  • Standup
  • Artistry

• 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
  • Day
  • Sounds
  • Smiles

• I want to do something that matters.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Doing
  • Matters
  • I Want

• 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
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Possess

• 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
  • Perspective
  • Matters
  • Bin Laden

• Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wealth
  • Matters
  • Gain

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