Worthwhile Quotes - Page 28

• I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Kids, Thinking, Games

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• If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Live For Today, Alive

  Stan Lee, Jeff McLaughlin (2007). “Stan Lee: conversations”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Mistake, Creative, Triumph

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• Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Reading, Two

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• Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which, in destroying individual rights - including property rights - and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worthwhile.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rights, Two, Agents

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.182, tredition

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• So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.

  Geddy Lee

  Views, Cds, Etc

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• No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile.

  Mark Helprin

  Dark, Guarantees, Said

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.677, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Soul, Ifs

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• It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who are constantly trying to share them with the public. Real art is illumination. It gives a man an idea he never had before or lights up ideas that were formless or only lurking in the shadows of his mind. It adds stature to life.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Art, Real, Men

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• The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.

  Berenice Abbott

  Art, Photographer, Trouble

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• Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.

  William J. Mitchell

  Safety, Needs, Sitting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

  Ella Winter

  Struggle, Fighting, Fruit

  Ella Winter (1963). “And not to yield: an autobiography”

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• What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

  George Steiner

  Book, Committees, Has Beens

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Life, May, Moments

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• Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

  Richard P. Feynman

  World, Variety

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.174, Princeton University Press

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• That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

  Adam Duritz

  Song, Art, Worthwhile Things

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• I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rich, Enjoy, Feels

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1991). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”

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• During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

  Nina Kuscsik

  Sports, Fitness, Running

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• I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.

  Guy Pearce

  Running, Mean, Eight

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

  Mike Nichols

  Long, Trying, Relief

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• No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person.

  Susan Jeffers

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Matter

  Susan Jeffers (1993). “Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace”, Ballantine Books

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• And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

  Mark Rothko

  Wall, Space, Trying

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.100, Yale University Press

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• Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.

  Laurence Overmire

  Thinking, Done, Paid

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• The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.

  Horace Pippin

  Mind, Details, Needs

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• The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Responsibility, Done

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