What matters is like, spreading love.
All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it. ' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.
It does not matter how many talents we have, what matters is how we use them.
I always want to have a new challenge involved. I need to put myself to the test, and if I make mistakes, it doesn't matter. What matters to me, instead, is making my dreams come true and putting them on display.
If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.
What matters is how well we have loved.
What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.
The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.
An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.
What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.
Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (. . . ) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
C. S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.
The God who created, names, and numbers the stars in the heavens also numbers the hairs of my head. . He pays attention to very big things and to very small ones. What matters to me matters to Him, and that changes my life.
There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.
when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.