"What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?"
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"Being a healthy woman isn't about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters-on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves."
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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
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"Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished."
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"We need much less than we think we need."
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"What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last."
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"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."
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"Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that."
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"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."
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"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."
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"For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."
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"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant."
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"I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more."
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"Live your life with passion, with some drive, decide that you are going to push yourself. The last chapter to your life has not been written yet, and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday. It doesn't matter about what happened to you, what matters is, 'what are you going to do about it?'"
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"The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life."
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"We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be."
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"If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me."
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"It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive."
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"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."
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"Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design."
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