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I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have

Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

When your wife calls, you have to take it, no matter what you're doing.

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.

There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

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.

I told myself no matter what she did i would not let the b**** take me down

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

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.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

What if I couldn't read? I wouldn't be able to text my friends movie times or even order cheese biscuits from Red Lobster!

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.

A Fighter gets up... No matter what.

Do what you love and the rest will come.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

Do what you want as long as its paying off for you. But once its become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.

Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions,

What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?

The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.

What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside.

Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.

when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.

Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.

Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.

Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?

When you are doing what you love to do, you become resilient.

When youre doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do whats expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.

Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most. Strength comes not from frantic activity but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from placing our attention and efforts on the basics of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most.

Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

Things will come to you when the time is right and I say just go for it. If you love what you want to do, just keep on going.

Getting up in the morning and loving what you do is a dream come true.

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.

He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.

Cool is overrated. Be a geek for what you Love

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