#mattered

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. ↗

— Larry Page

#around #ask #been #doing #driven

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

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

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

— Martina Navratilova

#i #mattered #people #somehow #stop

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. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#go #him #honestly #i #less

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

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

— George Weinberg

#commune #dress #gay #i #lived

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

— Tracy Chapman

#life #like #live #love #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