Mattered Quotes
299 quotes by 238 authors
-
I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to…
— Madeleine Albright
-
One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
— Ines de La Fressange
-
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will)…
— John Green
-
Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living…
— Richard Bach
-
God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn…
— Melanie Klein
-
It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of…
— Scott O'Grady
-
If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.
— Dan Farmer
-
The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the real…
— Francois Jacob
-
If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.
— Umar
-
I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say it, preferring to…
— Corey Taylor
-
The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour
— Hugh Massingberd
-
When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
— Mickey Mantle
-
But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being…
— Paul Begala
-
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into…
— Louise Erdrich
-
That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up…
— Jenny Han
-
You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
-
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
— Edwin Powell Hubble
-
Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their…
— John Desmond Bernal
-
Enduringly successful people, many of whom live a life that's a gift to the world, don't raise balance as a major issue-not because they had…
— Jerry I. Porras
-
...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as…
— Robert McNamara
Who Wrote These Mattered Quotes
238 authors contributed a total of 299 Mattered Quotes, led by these top contributors: