#matters

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#asked #child #dad #day #desire

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters. ↗

— Martin Yan

#away #back #been #exciting #exciting life

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#arrive #beginnings #being #common #endings

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them. ↗

— John Green

#figuring #happened #i #i write #introverted

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#affairs #because #demonstrative #evidence #expect

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#bands #because #escape #go #interested

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#good #in the end #journey #matters #towards

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ↗

— Robert Hall

#conscience #first #last #matters #prudence

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#allies #ally #been #concern #global

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement. ↗

— Paul Harris

#been #disagreement #focus #matters #members