Top What Matters Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of What Matters quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Jacqueline Woodson
What you say is what matters.
- Jacqueline Woodson
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Image of Steve McCurry
What matters most is that each picture stands on its own with its own place and feeling.
- Steve McCurry
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Image of Steve McCurry
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.
- Steve McCurry
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Image of Mira Grant
I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.
- Mira Grant
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Image of Dervla Murphy
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
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Image of William Tyndale
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
- William Tyndale
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Image of Muriel Barbery
Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.
- Muriel Barbery
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Image of Robert B. Parker
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.
- Robert B. Parker
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Image of Terry Riley
It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!
- Terry Riley
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Image of Tom Shadyac
What matters is who we are, not who we beat.
- Tom Shadyac
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Image of David Neeleman
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
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Image of Kate Elliott
We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.
- Kate Elliott
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Image of Thomas  Moore
What's important is finding out what works for you.
- Thomas Moore
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Image of Craig Thompson
For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?
- Craig Thompson
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Image of A. N. Wilson
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
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Image of Francis Chan
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
- Francis Chan
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Image of Bruce Willis
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
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Image of Gabourey Sidibe
It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.
- Gabourey Sidibe
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Image of Barack Obama
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
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Image of Johannes Tauler
What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
- Johannes Tauler
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Image of Frances Perkins
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
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Image of Jenny Sanford
What matters most is how you live your life, not what you have to show for it.
- Jenny Sanford
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Image of Chris Brogan
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
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Image of Basil Bunting
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
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Image of Joseph Simmons
Don't be so concerned about the size of your next step....The direction is what matters!
- Joseph Simmons
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Image of Paul H. Dunn
It does not matter how many talents we have, what matters is how we use them.
- Paul H. Dunn
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Image of Frank Luntz
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
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Image of Raoul Dufy
The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.
- Raoul Dufy
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Image of Kelly McGonigal
People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.
- Kelly McGonigal
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Image of Anwarul Karim Chowdhury
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
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Image of Sophia Bush
What matters is a good person, a good soul, someone who genuinely gives good attention to the relationships in their lives.
- Sophia Bush
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Image of Angelina Grimke
We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
- Angelina Grimke
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Image of Jan Kott
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
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Image of Elizabeth Kolbert
It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
- Elizabeth Kolbert
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Image of Stewart D. Friedman
Invest in helping people know what matters to them and who matters to them (and why), and encourage them to continually experiment with how they get things done in ways the serve their interests and yours as an employer.
- Stewart D. Friedman
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Image of Victoria Moran
Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.
- Victoria Moran
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Image of El-P
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
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Image of Paul Watson
In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.
- Paul Watson
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Image of Scott D. Anthony
All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at first glance make sense to the market leader.
- Scott D. Anthony
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Image of Confucius
We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.
- Confucius
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Image of Jean Cocteau
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
- Jean Cocteau
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Image of Janet Burroway
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
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Image of Kevin J. Anderson
We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.
- Kevin J. Anderson
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Image of Anne Waldman
Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."
- Anne Waldman
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Image of E. C. Bentley
Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?
- E. C. Bentley
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Image of Dick Van Dyke
You're going to die. That's going to happen. What matters is what you do with your time before you get flushed out.
- Dick Van Dyke
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Image of Dana Gioia
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
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Image of Erica Bauermeister
We’re all just ingredients. What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal.
- Erica Bauermeister
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Image of John Gorka
What matters the most is what you do for free
- John Gorka
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Image of Frantz Fanon
What matters is not to know the world but to change it.
- Frantz Fanon
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