Matter Quotes - Page 174

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible.

A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

we can do anything when we decide to win no matter what!

It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.

Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

I once terminated a partnership with a chap who proved--unreliable. As a matter of fact, I terminated him.

It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.

Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.

I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.

Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed.

If an audience finds themselves paying attention to how you made your film, you're sunk because that means they're unplugged from your story. What matters is what's unfolding on the screen, not how you put it there. It doesn't matter if it's red triangles or million dollar software if the audience doesn't care.

We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.

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?

If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

Success has to be an inside job. Happiness does not come from external material things. Even people don't make us ultimately happy. It's how we choose to deal with those things that happen in our lives that matters.

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.