Why It Matters Quotes

#1. I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

Carrie Brownstein

#2. My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

Susan Rice

#3. No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious faith. But I learn it right there in the hallway: I cannot do what's been done to me.

Zak Ebrahim

#4. It's easy to dismiss design - to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it matters - especially now.

Daniel H. Pink

#5. Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

Shauna Niequist

#6. I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out.

Terry Pratchett

#7. In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

Harold Bloom

#8. Oh, believe me, you want to know. Why it matters is because someday when Princess is screaming at three in the morning with a loaded diaper, or Junior gets expelled from preschool for punching his classmate, I want to be able to think back to the moment that we created them, and I want to smile and

Mia Sheridan

#9. The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.

Jon Meacham

#10. In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.

Marianne Williamson

#11. Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, 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.

Banana Yoshimoto

#12. What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? ( ... ) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

Richard Branson

#13. Today Matters People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters.

John C. Maxwell

#14. It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

John Lennon

#15. It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

Don Meyer

#16. It never ceases to amaze me that companies will spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars teaching people 'how to sell,' and not one minute or not $10 on 'why they buy.' And 'why they buy' is all that matters.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#17. It is the final person we see reflected in our eyes that really matters; we wonder who is she and why is she here? To find ourselves truly, it is the goal we have all set for ourselves.

Michelle Shen

#18. People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.

John C. Maxwell

#19. I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

Jo Nesbo

#20. Geoffrey: Why, you chivalric fool - as if the way one fell down mattered.
Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.

James Goldman

#21. What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience.

Andreas Feininger

#22. In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes.

Donna Farhi

#23. It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how you start the conversation, and how you end it, matters so much.

Frank Luntz

#24. For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.

Sundar Pichai

#25. It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

Albert Schweitzer

#26. I don't think it matters who you love, just as long as you love. Who cares whether it's a man or a woman? Why does that have anything more to do with the person inside than the color of someone's skin? Personally, I'm pretty fucking disappointed that I seem to be one hundred percent heterosexual.

Jane Green

#27. That's why prayer is so important. It unites your heart with God's. And it connects you to who matters more than anything else in your life. Prayer keeps your heart undivided.

Stormie O'martian

#28. Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.

Barry Ritholtz

#29. It isn't what people think that matters, but why they think it that does.

Anonymous

#30. It only shows, said Aunt Sadie, that nothing really matters the least bit, so why make these fearful efforts to keep alive?
Oh, but it's the efforts that one enjoys so much, said Davey...

Nancy Mitford

#31. It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

Melody Carlson

#32. We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don't understand why this matters. The evidence is in front of us, and we fail to take it in and say, "Now I get it. Now I understand."

Sylvia Earle

#33. 'Motivation matters,' he said again, 'because why you do something connects to how you do it, who you do it to, or for. And maybe what you see at the end of it-if you're looking that far.'

Nora Roberts

#34. It may just be a little sentence from the little girl, but what matters is that she had done it; why can't I?

Low Kay Hwa

#35. Hendrick, I have explained these matters to you because it is useless to punish a man unless he knows why he is being punished.

Robert A. Heinlein

#36. Why is it that there was always a unit on history, math, science and god knows what other useless, totally forgettable information you taught those seventh graders year after year, but never any unit on death? No exercises, no workbooks, no final exams on the only subject that matters?

Nicole Krauss

#37. Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Kublai Khan

#38. -Why do you live in hotels?
-It simplifies postal matters, it eliminates the nuisance of private ownership, it confirms me in my favorite habit
the habit of freedom.

Vladimir Nabokov

#39. There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've never liked anything I've done. What do critics know? It's the way the audience reacts that matters.

Eddie Murphy

#40. But it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.

Norton Juster

#41. We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#42. When I noticed that some of the gray-haired ladies had tears in their eyes, I understood for the first time why music matters so much, how it reminds us of who we are and where we came from, of all the good times and the sadness, too.

Dean Koontz

#43. Some roads we travel in life can feel like the ones that might break us, but that's why God surrounds us with people who will cheer us on and wipe our tears and listen as we pour out our hearts. Because often, it's not what you say but what you do that really matters.

Melanie Shankle

#44. It's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

Norton Juster

#45. Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.

Ken Liu

#46. You almost had me forget why I came here. It doesn't matter who you are, brother. The only thing that matters is what you've done.

Ben Ireland

#47. In this moment, Maria uncodes how parents carry on through defect, deformity, and sickness. It doesn't matter what sex this child is, she thinks, or how it is, or why it is. It only matters that it is. ANNE

Nic Brown

#48. Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.

Charlotte M. Mason

#49. Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

Madeleine L'Engle

#50. There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore,
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

Adam Lindsay Gordon

#51. Forget what I said. None of that matters, you know why? Because it's still a choice. Everyone gets hurt. It's what you do with it that matters.'
'Can you change how you feel?'
'No. But you can change how you act.

Kristen Heitzmann

#52. There's no meaning to life as a wolf. If you don't have memories, it's like you never existed. You can't leave anything behind. I mean - how can I defend humanity? It's all that matters. Why would you throw that away?

Maggie Stiefvater

#53. Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

Astro Teller

#54. But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

Agnes Smedley

#55. The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That's why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.

Otto Scharmer

#56. It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.

V.E Schwab

#57. Your religious book(s) mentioned the power of mind thousands of years ago so WHY do you have to wait until the science proves it in the 21st century? Let others wait to realize/prove the facts not you.

Maddy Malhotra

#58. Paxton
If happiness is the end result, if it's that single want that matters, if we had to through that to get here, I'd do it all over again. If it's the love that matters, then why does it matter how we got there? We were the perfect storm of two kinds of crazy.

Jettie Woodruff

#59. Tell me about it, he said. Tell me why you're so unhappy. It's just everything. There are too many people. And I don't fit in. I don't know how to be. Nothing that I'm good at it is sort of thing that matters there.

Rainbow Rowell

#60. Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?

David Bach

#61. Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.

L.J. Shen

#62. I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#63. In truth it matters less what we do ... than how we do it and why.

Donna Farhi

#64. it will make sense the moment you come Home. I could see it all so clearly. I could see what it is that we are waiting for. I knew in one solitary moment why I had learned obedience and why I valued nothing on the earth but love. It's all that matters. It is all there is.

Kate McGahan

#65. In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.

Malcolm Cowley

#66. I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.

Dev Hynes

#67. But that isn't why. The why is that none of it matters. Not school, not cheerleading, not boyfriends or friends or parties or creative writing programs or ... " She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die.

Jennifer Niven

#68. Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#69. These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.

Jones Very

#70. It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Alberto Manguel

#71. Evil cannot be "treated"
nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.

Bill O'Reilly

#72. When you get down to it, what matters is practice, will and a certain amount of skill. Capacity is a small matter, but if everything else is equal, capacity will win out. That's why we want magazines with lots of bullets in them.

Patrick Sweeney