My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!

I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He’s my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I...

‘Giving 2.0’ is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it’s about making your giving matter more to you.

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn’t matter if it’s a story or a novel, I find that when it’s still fresh in...

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn’t matter where.

It doesn’t matter what you do for 45 minutes, it’s what you do the last three minutes.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn’t matter whether they’re priests or ministers or atheists.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn’t matter if you can’t play a note, it’s how you communicate.

I’m for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

Being born at the tag-end of the baby boom, I was destined (or doomed, depending on how you look at it) to fall in love with sci-fi. It was one of my first literary loves,...

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks’ rain; where the sun is never far...

No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don’t always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

There’s never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

Your happiness is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of people around you! You matter; others also matter! Live life so well!

I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There’s many sides to personality, but it’s a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid...

Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I’m intensely interested in change – probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going...

No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.

If you’ve been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you’ll see if you have the ability or the passion to want to carry on. It’s something that you have to be...

When you’re reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter.

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

People will always have their opinions; I’ve come to learn whose matter.

So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains...

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child’s pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

Arise,awake and donot stop until the goal is reached.

We’ve talked to the Europeans about it. It’s clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the next step is to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council.

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter.’

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which...

I’m just competitive. It doesn’t matter what it is. I want to win.

I write about emotions – falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that’s why people feel connected.

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it’s buried in the back page or never...

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record – it’s easy to discover who’s in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don’t appear on any organization chart.

Think most of what matters. Think less of what doesn’t.

When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can....

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as ‘The Slap’ has, that’s great. The sense I get is that it’s not about me...

Don’t worry, don’t worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves – and now look at them. It’s just a matter of time.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor...

No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can’t decide to want anything, but what you want will at least in part...

Body and soul can never be marriedI need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell

I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it...

YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.

Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.

In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.