Worthwhile Quotes - Page 22

• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Father, Sadness, Excuse

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• The Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, White, House

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• The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

  George Lucas

  Motivational, Giving Up, Thinking

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• Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

  Deepak Chopra

  Yoga, Practice, Would Be

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• I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Fun, Talking, Years

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• 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.

  Richard Ford

  Reading, Feelings, Literature

  "Richard Ford: Pulitzer winner, focused reader". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 15, 2012.

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• Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.

  Octavia Butler

  Class, People, Feedback

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• That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Art, Struggle, Love Is

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• I think that the spirit of America is still very much one of where people want to work hard and the majority of people want to work hard. They want to be entrepreneurs. But when you have that all taken away with government regulation or with government overbearance of taxation, you start to wonder whether if it's even worthwhile because who are you really working for? Are you working for yourself, are you working for the government? In the end, this wealth distribution scheme that's at the heart of the current political administration is an inherently wrong one.

  Robin Leach

  Taken, Hard Work, Heart

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our brain is worthwhile.

  John Larroquette

  Brain, Way, Literature

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

  Jim Carrey

  Inspiration, Thinking, Sometimes

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• I think once those friendships, if you use that as an analogy, the friendships between the audience and the character is established, then you can start to take liberties. I believe that as this unfolds people will find the time invested worthwhile.

  Steven Knight

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  Source: deadline.com

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• Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.

  Henri Nouwen

  Desire, World, Shows

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.

  Bob Hawke

  Would Be, Roles, Said

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I never wake up wondering whether the day is going to be a meaningful one or whether my labors are gonna be worthwhile. They may be futile, but it doesn't mean they're not important, in a moral sense and in an historical sense.

  Eric Reeves

  Meaningful, Historical, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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  Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

  Sean Connery

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentines Day

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• I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

  Carol Ross Barney

  Trying, Architecture, My Family

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.

  Allen W. Wood

  Past, Self, Criticize

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than the clothes in the laundry basket or the dishes in the sink. It's more a matter of the attention you're willing to bring to them, where you're willing to allow meaning and pleasure and the light to escape.

  Ian Bogost

  Meaningful, Light, Clothes

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its efficiency. Its worth depends on the use that is made of it... For the first time in human history we have available to us the ability to communicate simultaneously with millions of our fellowmen, to furnish entertainment, instruction, widening vision of national problems and national events. An obligation rests on us to see that it is devoted to real service and to develop the material that is transmitted into that which is really worthwhile.

  Herbert Hoover

  Real, Lying, Vision

  "Déjà Vu All Over Again" by Todd Lappin, www.wired.com. May 1, 1995.

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• To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

  Joyce Maynard

  Stories, Share, Endeavor

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• What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our civilization forward. It might be curing disease, it might be eliminating poverty. Certainly it should include preventing environmental catastrophe. If AI could be instrumental to all those things, then I would feel it was worthwhile.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Moving, Civilization, Giving

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.

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• I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.

  John Climacus

  Running, Ease, Want

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• The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain.

  Richard Dawkins

  Trying, Hypothesis, Explanation

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• The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences which are so precious in themselves as to prove that not everything is a means to some end other than itself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Beautiful, Mean, Ends

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