#mattered

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#except #mattered #mind #nothing #our

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

— Stephen King

#made #mattered #never #only #place

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. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

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

— Taylor Swift

#expressed #favorite #i #mattered #old

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. ↗

— Andy Van Slyke

#fans #flair #guess #guys #how

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. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#bring #center #did #done #established

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. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bad #began #booming #economy #expecting

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. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#any #clear #did #electoral #ever

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

— Jesse Helms

#before #challenge #founders #into #lose

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. ↗

— Anita Hill

#everyone #forum #getting #i #listening