Worthwhile Quotes
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.
Ignore the junk news - work on a worthwhile project, make a plan, or do something to enhance your life.
In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.
Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.
Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.
The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.
The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.
All I care about really is writing something worthwhile for children, something that will engage them in some way and stimulates in them a sense of wonder.
You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.
And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.
Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us, and existentialism starts to make more and more sense.
I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.
You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.
I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.
If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.
I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me.
The person who creates from the noise simply adds to the noise. The person who creates from a place of listening, however, can actually make something worthwhile and enjoy his work in the process.
Perhaps love doesn't make the world go round, but it makes the bumpy ride worthwhile and provides a glorious destination.
It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.
I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.
An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.
Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.
The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.
I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.
It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.
As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.
Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.
Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile.
I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.
Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.
Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?
I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!
While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the writer as well.
Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.
Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity