Best 5806 quotes in «matter quotes» category

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.

Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.

Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort

Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

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.

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.

Success is not an accident. It is the result of your attitude and your attitude is a choice. Hence sucess is a matter of choice and not chance.

Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

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

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.

Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.

Take it from me: Elections matter.

Take nothing personally. Nothing is ever personal. No matter what anyone ever does to you, EVER, it’s not cause of you. It’s cause them, always. All you gotta know is THAT, just freaking take that with you everywhere, and you can just be happy all the time.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

Talent or intelligence doesn’t matter, Its your dreams that will decied how big a person you will become

Talk to people. Go another way. Don't kill yourself. It ain't worth it and I'm a great example. No matter how bad it seems at the time, work your way through it. Who knows how your life is going to turn out?

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.

Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.

[Ted Cruz] lies about things that he shouldn't be lying about. He lies about things that don't matter.

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.

Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

That means I’m not just here for the pretty parts. I’m here no matter what.

That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.