250 Quotes About What-matters

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.

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.

Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.

When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.

Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.