Matter Quotes - Page 55

People who are interested in doing something will do it when it's convenient; people who are committed will do it no matter what.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.

The only problem with voting is no matter who you vote for the government always gets in.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

Besides, does it really matter who hacked Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton's election campaign team database? Does it? What really matters is the content shown to the community. This is what the discussion should be held about.

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.

If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.

My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.