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"I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing."
"It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion."
"What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely."
"What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind."
"Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience--the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success."
"There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it."
"The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission."
"Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game."
"What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs."
"We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity."
"Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself."
"For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them."
"Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy."
"What matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good."
"If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless."
"One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished."
"What really matters is what you believe."
"In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t."
"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"
"If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters."
