Matter Quotes - Page 207

You have to consider all workers as your equals and speak matter of factly about things. People do want to understand things and respect you if you know what they do not know. And you have to respect what they know that you do not.

There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.

Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.

It doesn't matter what else is going on. When you walk into your arena or your - whatever you excel at, you're there to take care of the job that you have to do.

My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.

You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.

Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.

I encourage playfulness and experimentation with both the camera and subject matter. Sometimes there is an obvious perspective, but it is important never to be satisfied with that.

Many companies routinely do things that are not important. They fail to prioritize. They get involved with details that don't matter.

It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

Never say no. It always depends on what's possible. I don't care so much where it is; it's what I want to do that matters.

Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.

Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don't.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

Нe [Kurt Vonnegut] felt that life was largely a crap shoot and that we simply need to muddle on as best we can, being as kind and loving to one another as possible, right now. It's a pretty good philosophy, no matter what one's religious beliefs or lack of them.

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

You can go anywhere in New York. There's always something to do in New York. There's always a place to eat no matter what time it is. There's always a place to work, a place to drink. It's conducive to my lifestyle. I don't know how to drive a car, so I like to be able to walk places.

Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.