#matters

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#commitments #far #genuine #identifies #matters

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#expect #good #good work #matters #mistake

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#detecting #exact #great #great men #greatness

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#am #cannot #country #eradicate #forward

If it matters, it produces controversy. ↗

— Jay Greene

#matters #produces

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. ↗

— William James

#else #faith #greatest #matters #most

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#be happy #enjoy #happy #important #important thing

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#children #else #i #matters #much

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

#comes #darfur #matters #might #more

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#intimate #matters #must #own #privacy