Worthwhile Quotes - Page 10

• Can you buy friendship? You not only can, you must. It's the only way to obtain friends. Everything worthwhile has a price.

  Robert Ringer

  Way

  Robert J. Ringer (1977). “Looking out for number one”, Funk & Wagnalls Co

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• Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.

  Joseph Epstein

  Fashion, Real, Hunting

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• Before you speak, make certain you have something worthwhile to say.

  Groucho Marx

  Speak, Certain

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• Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is.

  Jack Lemmon

  Passion, Thinking, Matter

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• If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.

  Lorne Michaels

  Thinking, Way, Now And Then

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• The goals for me have changed somewhat. There's a bit of seduction to the idea of being on network, but it got to the point where that wasn't important. What's important is doing something worthwhile. Which is why I've always avoided being on a sitcom. Yeah, it's high-profile and it's on a network, but you know what? You could be on Suddenly Stewart.

  Jon Stewart

  Ideas, Goal, Important

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• I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress.

  Colleen Atwood

  Children, Fun, Grandma

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• There is no organizations and institutions that are worthwhile in terms of fighting for and dying for unless there is some individual integrity and character and virtue that is at work within various individuals in those institutions especially their leaders.

  Cornel West

  Integrity, Character, Fighting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All the utopianism of the early days of the Internet seems to have dissipated. But I don't want us to lose that utopianism altogether, even if it was naïve and ill-informed and sometimes silly. Rather I want us to ask about the obstacles that are preventing the good stuff from coming to fruition. Let's investigate and think about creating something worthwhile instead of assuming that there is an inevitable track of increased centralization, consolidation, and commercialization that we can't do anything about.

  Astra Taylor

  Silly, Thinking, Creating

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to simply assuming that it's all a natural process and there's no design in it. Because your public persona is designed, to a certain extent, and you can have fun and profit at various times doing that.

  Tony Kushner

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.

  Seth

  Order, Differences, People

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• I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Black, Done, Said

  Quoted in Brian Lanker I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America (1989).

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• I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

  Charles Grodin

  Confused, People, Want

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 24, 2002.

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• Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, People, Covenant

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• There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.

  Paul Theroux

  Problem, Problem Solving, Difficulty

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Meaningful, Life Is Good, Joy

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.37, Penguin

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• One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.

  Chris Hayes

  Philosophy, Moving, Simple

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• I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today.

  Chuck Feeney

  Believe, Giving, Delay

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• Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

  Matt Haig

  Dark, Light, Mind

  Matt Haig (2013). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Hurt, Prayer, Years

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• A highly worthwhile read with prescriptive examples for authentic sustainability and social justice initiatives at companies - not all about the brand, the celebrity or corporate self-interest (about the book 'Compassion, Inc.').

  Rebecca Aguilar

  Book, Compassion, Self

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• The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen, what they are looking for. What are they trying to do? Sometimes what they do is heroic or comes with a price or sacrifice or maybe the way they do things isn't so great and that's when they become anti-heroes. But the journey of an anti-hero combined with a good story done well is always worthwhile.

  Keanu Reeves

  Hero, Sacrifice, Journey

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.

  Lauren Bacall

  Husband, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself.  This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life.  The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

  Epictetus

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a woman. There is one crown which perhaps is worth it all--a great love, a quiet home, and children. We all know that is all that is worthwhile, and yet we must peg away, showing off our wares on the market if we have money, or manufacturing careers for ourselves if we haven't.

  Ruth Benedict

  Marriage, Children, Home

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