Jay Asher Quotes

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

Size counts. That's all.

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

Nothing is important.

The concept of what we're looking for is so important. The fact that the effect is tiny is just our misfortune.

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.

The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.

I'm just trying to matter.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

If anything matters, then everything matters.

I want to do something that matters.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.

In the end....everything matters.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.