Matter Quotes - Page 136

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.

What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.

It doesn't matter if they say you can't do it. It only matters if you say you can't.

Only the journey matters.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

No matter how many times something has been observed, it cannot be believed until it has been observed again.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

No matter how well you think you've hidden, you'll always leave behind a trace. And the more you try to hide that trace, the more obvious and troublesome it will become.

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.

Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. When you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over the place. When you do have ideas, you have more consistency. And when you have the right ideas - then you can get somewhere (reagan had the right ideas).

Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.

Follow your bliss. Do the thing where you sit down at 8 a.m. and then you realize you're hungry and you look up and it's 10 p.m. If you can find something you love that much, it doesn't matter what you do.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.