Quotes About Your Mattering

#1. What matters to you defines your mattering.

John Green

#2. I was thinking about your mattering business. I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

John Green

#3. I've always had this thing about it not really mattering where you're from, because there's always been this big cloud over America saying you have to live in L.A. or you have to live in New York to make it. I always knew it didn't matter as long as you had the songs.

Brandon Flowers

#4. Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

Steve Jobs

#5. The intensity of mattering, while ideologically constructed, is nevertheless always beyond
ideological challenge because it is called into existence affectively.

Linda Kintz

#6. It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.

Robert B. Parker

#7. Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#8. We have a fundamental imperative in our lives to matter to others, to serve others, and to support each other in mattering more.

Tom Hayes

#9. It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.

John Cho

#10. I made a decision that year, to start mattering in a way that had nothing to do with sports teams or plastic crowns, and the reality is, I might have made that decision without her, or if I'd never fallen in love with a girl who considered love to be the biggest disaster of all.

Robyn Schneider

#11. The future will erase everything
there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

John Green

#12. Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?

Ryan Lilly

#13. Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.

John Barnes

#14. Rod McKuen. One of his poems says something
about it not mattering who you love but the important thing is that you love,

Carolyn Brown

#15. It is, you must concede, unpleasantly messy, this business of having feelings, this mattering to each other. I've always thought of it as gory, a sort of perpetually occurring road accident - everyone going too fast, too close, without due care and attention, or with too much ...

Glen Duncan

#16. Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down. The bigger a deal you are, the worse your life is.

John Green

#17. And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

John Green

#18. Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.

Andy Stanley

#19. Maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering

John Green

#20. If you're trying to tell me you're not used to mattering to someone, I might just bleed out right here on the floor.

Kelly Moran

#21. But perhaps what mattered at eighty was habit, the body no longer interested in sex, the mind no longer interested in speculation, the smaller things in life mattering more than the large and, in the end, the slow realization that nothing really mattered at all.

P.D. James

#22. I don't know when I stopped mattering to him, and I don't know how to undo it. I want it to be like it used to, when all he needed was me.

Amanda Grace

#23. We knew that everything was more about how it appeared than how it was. The most important thing, in any circumstance, was to amount to something that really looked like it was something.

Janne Teller

#24. After a while you tame your interior monsters, it's only natural. I don't mean that it ever stops; but it stops mattering.

Joanna Russ

#25. Everything that matters hurts, until it doesn't matter anymore.

Dianna Hardy

#26. That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.
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John Green

#27. One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.

John Green

#28. Thank you ... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Jimmy Fallon

#29. When people have a real sense of legacy, a sense of mattering, a sense of contribution, it seems to tap into the deepest part of their heart and soul. It brings out the best and subordinates the rest.

Stephen Covey

#30. I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

Rick Yancey

#31. Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Elizabeth Bowen