- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
This page starts with a striking reframe of confinement as something that can happen mentally even to people who are physically free, and pairs it with career advice about simply landing that first entry-level role. For related thinking, see Life.
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
- Dragging
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
- Guise
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020