What Quotations

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life without a dream?

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

Theres always a price for what you want.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love.

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

You are what you love. Not what loves you.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this'

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

Why do you not practice what you preach.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say

I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?' Like, everyone collectively decided, 'We're done!' Over time I got more confidence.

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

Enjoy the moment and appreciate what you have.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's what matters. But it wasn't that great for me because it was kinda like going back into the old times without the guy.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.

For the user, it doesn't matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity, and as a technology provider, our job is to hide the complexity of the technology.

I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.

My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.