The use of mythology does not bother me with either Tolkien or Lewis, but it REALLY
does matter to some people.
The issue of an MP claiming expenses for a mortgage that has already been paid off really
does matter to people, and politicians can not defend extra-marital affairs by pretending that the public isn't interested.
But they clearly
did matter to the people buying high - end smartphones, and the Moto X's smaller, lower - resolution display and older processor were easily overshadowed by the bigger, faster Android smartphones occupying store shelves.
But, there's also an appeal in being married — meaning, it really
does matter to people beyond the structural reasons.
Not exact matches
«It's not that
people are motivated
to vote but can't make it because of work; it's that they don't think it
matters or don't feel sufficiently informed,» he says.
There's also the
matter of whether mobile medical care will ultimately reduce national health spending: At least one recent report suggests that the technology may well cause
people to pursue care they don't need precisely because it makes it so convenient
to get.
Wins, awards, accolades... those are what fans tend
to remember, but ultimately what we
do for other
people is what truly
matters.
«If I can teach
people to do work that
matters —
to do work that I'm proud of and that they're proud of,» he told me, «then I believe I've succeeded.»
People love
to feel like they have the best thing, no
matter what that thing is, and they'll
do way more than talk about it if they really feel like it's the best.
It
does not
matter what China
does, there are still many many
people in the west that think China is and will be a threat
to their well being.
Harwood: What
do you advise
people as a
matter of strategy
to do about situations like Conor Lamb found himself in when he was running?
Be courageous, challenge
people to come up with the next idea - incremental or great, it doesn't
matter.
We all dream of what we'll
do in retirement, but many
people about
to retire, no
matter their finances, fear they're not prepared emotionally.
The fact of the
matter is that you don't get
to run a publicly traded company unless you're a pretty competitive
person,» the «Mad Money» host said.
People are going
to say, «I know Pepsi is the biggest brand, but when it comes
to me purchasing a drink, that doesn't
matter.»
The science of productivity is clear:
people don't simply want
to produce, they want
to know that their efforts
matter, make a difference, and have impact.
When you're buying a business, don't assume the
person who started it — no
matter what they say — is going
to stay on.
So whether you're devoutly religious, libidinously left, rapaciously right, or somewhere in between, what you say and
do in your public life
matters to your customers and
to the
people who help make your company what it is.
«Everyone comes
to Apple
to do the best work of their lives — work that
matters and contributes
to what all 135,000
people in this company are
doing together,» says Joswiak.
It has
to do with our wanting
to be honest about the ups and downs of our business and
to share what we think with the
people who
matter most
to us — our customers.
Doesn't
matter; Google will show the ads
to a few thousand
people, and within a week or two, there's a clear winner.
Perhaps $ 75,000 is the threshold beyond which further increases in income no longer improve individuals» ability
to do what
matters most
to their emotional well - being, such as spending time with
people they like, avoiding pain and disease, and enjoying leisure.»
When results are all that
matter,
people will
do whatever it takes
to achieve them.
While your many
to -
do's — emails, meetings,
people, opportunities — all seem important, none of them will
matter unless you nail down the most impactful activities.
While speed
to market is an advantage that podcasts possess, production quality still
matters: if you don't produce great stuff,
people will tune you out.
There are times when
people feel that what they're
doing is just a drop in the bucket, that it doesn't
matter to the business even if they put in a little extra effort.
«The
people of B.C. don't want our Pacific coast
to be transformed into a export facility for dirty oil, no
matter where the proposed pipeline runs,» says Ben West of the Wilderness Committee, an environmental group.
Let's face it: mediocre
people want
to get paid and keep their jobs no
matter what they
do.
If a relationship is not growing, if a business is not growing, if you're not growing, it doesn't
matter how much money you have in the bank, how many friends you have, how many
people love you — you're not going
to experience real fulfillment.
No
matter how well known you are, or how busy you are don't be that
person who thinks they are too good
to reply
to anyone.
«Whatever those two
people want
to do — may it be
to give company at a dinner or end up in bed together — is a private
matter and should be agreed upon in the chat before meeting,» Poppenreiter told TechCrunch.
What you end up
doing has more significance that what you say you're going
to do and at the end of the day, it doesn't
matter what this other
person thinks or says about it.
Even Griffen noted that no
matter what the state chooses
to do, the fact that Arkansans will now have
to wait even longer for access
to medical marijuana «should be unpleasant
to anyone concerned about providing relief
to people who suffer from serious illnesses.»
We [at Quest Nutrition] had TVs that would cycle through images of
people that have used our product
to go through these tremendous transformations, because we wanted them
to understand what you're
doing is significant, it
matters.
«I tried
to ignore the
people until 10 minutes passed and a flight attendant came over
to me and asked me and my baby
to move
to the back of the plane (as if the
people in the back didn't
matter).
If you naturally come alive at night and feel like a zombie before midmorning no
matter what you
do, you've no doubt spent most of your life being nagged by well - meaning parents, teachers, and advice peddlers
to mend your ways and become a morning
person.
It doesn't really
matter what organisation you're in, you have
to focus on the
people.
It doesn't
matter as long as the
person can adequately represent the interests of the company and has the authority
to make decisions.
«No
matter what they
do in their careers — go off
to a private equity firm,
to consulting, go work for a big company, be in the marketing unit at Merck — they're almost certain
to be involved in launching new businesses or new products, or working with
people who are,» Eisenmann says.
People get lazy when it comes
to travel because any prep work, no
matter how much time it may save in the long run, just seems like another dreary task on the
to -
do list.
On the surface, wine tasting seems like an indulgent, selfish thing, but this wine taster I met said «I think what I
do matters, and I'm on a mission
to help
people enjoy wine, which has been a huge part of my life.»
That might not
matter much if you just don't want say, the family time - share, but it could make a big difference if you're disclaiming strategically with the aim of passing assets
to a specific
person.
Irrespective of whether we
did everything that is being said about us in London today (and
to be clear, I don't think we
did), it really
matters what
people think of us, especially in a global business like ours, where actions in one part of the world can have serious consequences in another.
«We have quite a list of marketing techniques, but it doesn't
matter if
people aren't willing
to go through a barricade
to get
to you,» says Robert Smith, the director of operations at Uncle Jack's.
And when it doesn't
matter if it fails it has a better chance
to succeed because you're just trying
to be useful
to other
people, and money is a side effect of that.
Your web presence isn't about you, it's about what
matters to the
people you
do business with.
When you double click on that, they find what they
do infinitely interesting and invariably feel like it
matters to other
people.
«The world has opened up
to the idea that if you can put a good team together, it doesn't really
matter whether they're on staff or where they work,» he says, adding: «What I realized is there are so many
people out there who don't want a full - time job.»
The fact of the
matter is
people want
to be noticed for a job well
done.
I — I
do sweat the specifics, because I think they
matter, whether one more kid gets health care, one more
person finds a job, or one more woman entrepreneur gets access
to capital
to follow her dream — those just may be details in Washington, but it really
matters to those
people and their families.