Matters - Quotes
When you`ve reached a certain point of your life, there are people out there waiting to see you fall, but rather than let gravity take you down, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands... and fly.
I`ve made billions of dollars of failures [...]. None of those things are fun, but also they don`t matter. What matters is companies that don`t continue to experiment or embrace failure eventually get in the position where the only thing they can do is make a Hail Mary bet at the end of their corporate existence. I don`t believe in bet-the-company bets.
I`m angry that when people run for political office in the United States, it`s considered legitimate to grill them about their employment background, their positions on legislation, their positions on social issues, the taxes they`ve paid [...]... but it`s considered invasive and intolerant to ask if they believe in talking snakes, demonic possession, magic underwear, magic crackers that turn into the flesh of their god, an Earth that was created 6,000 years ago, or a god who put himself on Earth in human form and then sacrificed himself to himself to atone for sins that other people committed and to save humanity from the punishment he himself was planning to dole out. If someone is going to make decisions about science funding, emerging medical technology, our educational system, and so on... I think it matters if they believe any of that shit, and I bloody well want to know about it.
All that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
Everyone falls down. What matters is that you pick yourself up and keep going.
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.
It`s the life-long companionship that matters. It`s the living together from day to day, not the sleeping together once or twice.
New technologies will finally help medical professionals focus more on the patient as a human being instead of spending time hunting down pertinent information. They will be able to do what they do best: provide care with expertise. In turn, patients will get the chance to be equal partners in this process taking matters into their own hands.
It doesn't matter what you did or where you were, it matters where you are and what you're doing.
Some things don`t matter much [...]. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person`s heart - now, that matters. The whole problem with people is [...] they know what matters, but they don`t choose it.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.