What Really Quotes

#1. I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important ... what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

Ian C. Esslemont

#2. Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

Deborah Cox

#3. People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Mick Jagger

#4. In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

Nancy Horan

#5. What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

Antonio Carlos Jobim

#6. What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

Fred Rogers

#7. A student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison spent 90 days technology free. He went without a cell phone, Facebook, Twitter, or any social media of any kind. And you know what really improved? His driving!

Jay Leno

#8. Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.

Richard Pipes

#9. If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Tom Stoppard

#10. What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

Idris Elba

#11. Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

George Lucas

#12. Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

Julian Baggini

#13. What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.

Brian Dennehy

#14. What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.

D. James Kennedy

#15. But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

Donald Johanson

#16. I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#17. Love of Truth is one of the strongest motives for replacing what really happens by a streamlined account or, to express it in a less polite manner
love of truth is one of the strongest motives for deceiving oneself and others.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#18. Sometimes you have to go through a total loss of inspiration to find what really inspires you the most.

Dirk Mai

#19. The secret of effectiveness is to know what really counts, then do what really counts, and not worry about all the rest.

Rick Warren

#20. Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.

D.J. MacHale

#21. People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

Ivan Lendl

#22. Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.

Robert James Waller

#23. Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

Christopher Koch

#24. Tomorrow never really comes, so todays performance is what really counts.

Bill Sharman

#25. That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.

Aaron Rodgers

#26. Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

Michael Hirst

#27. The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.

Jeff Koons

#28. I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

Katie Price

#29. This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.

John Blair

#30. It was all very well occupying the moral high ground on electoral reform, but what really mattered, she thought, was how you treated your mother.

Alexander McCall Smith

#31. fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are. My

Banana Yoshimoto

#32. All that matters is that artists keep reminding mortals about what really matters: the wonder, the glory, the madness, the importance and the improbability of love.

Hannah Mary Rothschild

#33. Real success isn't just a matter of chance or choice. What really matters, before you make a choice, is that you clarify and choose what really matters.

Tony Dovale

#34. About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

Robert Fulghum

#35. Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

Essence Atkins

#36. What really matters?
people. always people.
protect yourself from people. but love some of them, also.
because that's all there is.

Julio Alexi Genao

#37. I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

Charles Dance

#38. There's likely a place in paradise for people who tried hard, but what really matters is succeeding. If that requires you to change, that's your mission.

Stanley McChrystal

#39. What really matters are the lives you touch along the way and how you finish your journey.

Nick Vujicic

#40. Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them.

Jenna Jameson

#41. I think what really clicked for me was when I started booking commercials as a dancer ... just being on set and seeing every element of production, it was magic to me.

Bree Turner

#42. She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.

B. Barmanbek

#43. What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves.

Jerome A. Cohen

#44. Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this ... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.

Homer Hickam

#45. It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#46. So what really happened to you? (Astrid)
Nothing. (Zarek)
Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it's capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#47. What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?'

Ray William Johnson

#48. When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.

Lisa J. Shultz

#49. What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

Phil Donahue

#50. I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

Joan Allen

#51. Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Robert Menzies

#52. It's only human to think about the the 'what might have beens'. But it doesn't change what really is. And if we get lost in things that aren't, we lose sight of what's right in front of us.

Dan Skinner

#53. Nothing lasts forever. That is the only truth we are guaranteed in life. When someone says they will love you forever, what does that really mean? Then again, what really is love? I think that's why we're here. For each of us to discover what love means to us.

Jewel E. Ann

#54. For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.

Marissa Mayer

#55. I would be remiss when talking about beauty secrets to not say that one of the best is to care about the world around you. That's what really matters.

Christie Brinkley

#56. It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

Marya Hornbacher

#57. What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

D. B. Sweeney

#58. As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.

Ravi Zacharias

#59. Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

C.S. Lewis

#60. Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

Danger Mouse

#61. What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted and processed.

Robin S. Sharma

#62. For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Anthony Hopkins

#63. If you are not familiar with millibars, 1020 is high; 1000 is low; and what really matters is direction and speed of change.

Webb Chiles

#64. If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

Nick Clegg

#65. That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

Dick Button

#66. To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget ... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.

Gary Cole

#67. What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at their core will have more of an impact on the cultural consciousness than a character who's just an empty collection of attributes.

Kurt Busiek

#68. The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?

Sarah Jessica Parker

#69. What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#70. I've relived that moment so often in my head, I can never be sure what really happened and what we only embellished afterward. But does it matter? We make reality our own, handle it until it is as soft as pressed butter.

Lauren Oliver

#71. What really matters to me is what my peers think.

Helen McCrory

#72. Consider what really makes up your self-worth - like your caring heart or your ability to stand tall in the face of adversity

Susan Bernstein

#73. What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations

Richard Dawkins

#74. Faith Alone is what really matters.

Nichiren

#75. How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Daniel Webster

#76. New York is more exciting, I guess, than even Paris or London. New York's the center of something; I don't know what, really - the center of a lot of things. With all its problems and chaos and craziness, it's still a great place to live. I can't see myself living anywhere else.

Robert De Niro

#77. Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

H.L. Mencken

#78. Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.

Debbi Fields

#79. It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

Gabriel Byrne

#80. The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.

Joe Paterno

#81. What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts ... But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

James Branch Cabell

#82. I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

Patti Davis

#83. There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.

J. Sterling

#84. I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.

Sheldon Adelson

#85. The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.

Robert H. Schuller

#86. It does not matter whatsoever, what the people around you think you can or cannot do. What really matters is what you think about your capabilities.

Abhijit Naskar

#87. Matter occupies space, and you can only have space for what really matters.

Marla Miniano

#88. Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Freeman Patterson

#89. I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.

Marilyn Manson

#90. The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.

Criss Jami

#91. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction? ... Offering others what you have to give.

Mitch Albom

#92. You are satisfied with your day when there is a match between what you value and how you spent your time. On the other hand, when what you actually work on and accomplish during the day is mostly different from what really matters to you, you feel unfulfilled.

Matt Perman

#93. What really makes us is beyond grasping. It's way beyond knowing. We give in to love ... because it gives us some sense of what is unknowable. Nothing else matters, not at the end.

Josephine Hart

#94. We didn't have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these jobs, like, a penny for a piece, you know, these paper jobs. You know, what really saved me as a human today is my sisters and my mom.

Riccardo Tisci

#95. The more you know, the less you understand.
That's so cliche'. Wanna know the scary version?
The more you know, the more fuckups you find.
That's what really makes you even less understand.

Toba Beta

#96. If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.

Meg Rosoff

#97. Don't judge a community by how much they are suffering but judge them by how much they are learning from it. That is what really matters.

Debasish Mridha

#98. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.

John Grogan

#99. I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.

Giuliana Rancic

#100. At the end of the day; what really matters, is the love we sowed ...
Remember: true love will always find its way back home ...

Glory Shalom