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  • What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

  • What matters the most is what you do for free

  • How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.

    Mom   Mother   Children  
  • What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

  • What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.

  • What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.

    Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.
  • There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  • 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.

  • 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 (2010). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters to you in your self will change.

  • 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.

    Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson
  • 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's Secret Life". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. July 9, 2006.
  • What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

  • What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be put together coherently. But what matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.

    "Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress". Interview with Paul Gillin, www.socialmediatoday.com. December 8, 2012.
  • I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.

    Book   Writing   Thinking  
  • 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.

  • Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • What matters is giving over to what you love.

  • You can't always be the top player, but you can always contribute. I just want to win...that's what matters.

  • Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

    Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage
  • 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.

  • I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

    Beautiful   Pain   Tired  
    Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.186, Macmillan
  • 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.

    "Total Surrender". Book by Matthew Terrill, 2014.
  • To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.

    James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”
  • Seth: "You're what matters" Ash: "Hold me? If you still want to, I mean." Seth: "Every day, I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.

  • We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

    Kevin J. Anderson (2011). “Hidden Empire: The Saga Of Seven Suns - Book One”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
  • It won't matter who my friends were; it won't matter my endorsements; what matters is my heart's response to him.

  • We don't have to have blood relations in order to be brothers and sisters. Flesh and blood, those are just things that we're made of. In a real family, what matters is our hearts. We care, show concern and love. Anyone can be family too.

    Brother   Real   Drama  
  • We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.

    Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.227, A&C Black
  • It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.

    Soccer   Team   Crazy  
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