Worthwhile Quotes - Page 25

• When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.

  Aristide Maillol

  Next, Tone, Imitation

  "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 407, 1972.

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• There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hard Work, Men, Two

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

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• Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  "The Country of the Pointed Firs". Book by Sarah Orne Jewett, Ch. 16, 1896.

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• The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Men, Secret

  "Correspondance Napoleon" edited by Henri Plon, Vol. V, No. 3605, (p. 128), 1861.

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• It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Life, Sweet, Simple

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

  Marcus Garvey

  African American, Inspire, Words Of Wisdom

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

  Walt Disney

  Fun, Views, Giving

  "The Gospel According to Disney : Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust". Book by Mark I. Pinsky, 2004.

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• Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.

  Walt Disney

  Thinking, Want, Lifetime

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• I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

  Claude Monet

  Years, Painting, Achieve

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Future, Creating

  Edgar Degas (1995). “Edgar Degas: Paintings”

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• Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

  Robert Jordan

  Pigs, Fool, Acorns

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.488, Macmillan

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• It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Real, Successful

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• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  Iris DeMent

  Suffering, Want, Has Beens

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• ...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Real, Believe, Future

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• A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Believe, Future, Grandchildren

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.123, SPCK

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• The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thinking, Men, Expression

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• Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?

  Dale Bumpers

  Jobs, Military, Years

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Reading, Years, Two

  Jane Austen (2015). “Northanger Abbey”, p.79, Cumulus Publishing Limited

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• Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls.He shrugged,an exaggerated look of innocence on his face. Still,it wouldn't hurt for me to try,would it?You have got to be the most sefless boyfriend alive.Like I said,anything worthwhile is worth making sacrifices for.Speaking of which,weren't you going to give me a tongue demonstration?

  Kiersten White

  Hurt, Sacrifice, Giving

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• There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

  Keith O'Brien

  Doubt, Influence, Institutions

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• I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Crazy, Thinking, Tvs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

  Colin Quinn

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 18, 2003.

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• 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.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Careers, Stories, Want

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• I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

  Ruth Simmons

  Value Of Education, Good Living, Values

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• It were worthwhile to die, if thereby a soul could be born again.

  Mary Slessor

  Soul, Born Again, Dies

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