Quotes About Matters

Whatever success I've had it is because I've tried to understand the situation of the player. I think the coach's duty is to avoid complicating matters.

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

She said, "I love you, Con," because whatever Jakob believed about those three words, they still mattered to Harper. They were as close to an incantation as any she knew, had power other words lacked. "I'll

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

That shift—the shift in his "we"—matters in how we read his engagement with Black Power and his later work.

You are loved. If so, what else matters?

Poor Jerry. He's giving all of himself to something he's got to loose. -So does everybody...sooner or later. -Freeze on that. -On what? -On all that heavy philosophy bullshit. I'm talking about here and now and everyday important things that people live by. If you extrapolate everything-nothing matters.

The purpose of this chapter is to make clear why subjectivity and integrated experience are essential enablers of the cultural mind. In the absence of subjectivity, nothing matters; in the absence of some degree of integrated experience, the reflection and discernment that are required for creativity are not possible.

Part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security.

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'

Political institutions are fair game in political debates in a democracy. Nothing is more fair game, in fact, than political matters of public concern.

I don't think content matters at all. Content won't matter unless it matters to the stars. Producers are helpless people... They don't dictate or guide content. It is dictated purely by stars.

You could talk about potential all day. Nobody really cares about it on the football field. You want to come out and win these games. That's the only thing that matters.

The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Ferdinando [King of Naples] resolv'd, in good Earnest, to try how to compromise the Affair of the Castles; being persuaded, that that when this Obstacle was remov'd, Matters would easily return into the fame peaceable Channel. But by removing the Causes, the Effects that sprung from them are not always remov'd. For, as it frequently happens, that Resolutions taken out of Fear seldom appear sufficient to the Fearful.

I see the signs!" Jessica snapped. "My question was meant to remind you that you should not try to teach me those matters in which I instructed you." Paul

This is their weakness, Duncan. Radicals always see matters in terms which are too simple—black and white, good and evil, them and us. By addressing complex matters in that way, they rip open a passage for chaos. The art of government as you call it, is the mastery of chaos.

You must teach me someday how you do that,' he said, 'the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing'. 'It's a female thing', she said.