Mattered Quotes

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly.

Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered.

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

But I think what happened was that Clinton knew how to fight back. And the way he fought back was on the issues - being tough in staying on the things that mattered to people in their lives.

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.