#mattered

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. ↗

— Maya Lin

#learning #life #mattered #money #only

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

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

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

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

— Franco Nero

#mattered #my life #only #part #probably

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. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#did #game #hope #i #love

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

— Gene Tierney

#columbia #eye #i #learned #mattered

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. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#decisions #direct #disconnected #felt #honest

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

— Jane Fonda

#frankly #how #i #i was raised #looked

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. ↗

— Tab Hunter

#doing #foundation #great #had #i