Worthwhile Quotes - Page 9

• Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, School, Thinking

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Moving, Men, Sublime

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• Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

  Josiah Royce

  Philosophy, Real, Men

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• The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what`s the really worthwhile advice that a 21, 22 year old person will walk away from the speech and say, I can apply this maybe five years, 10 years later. How many speeches actually push the button like that, other than yours?

  David Corn

  Years, Advice, Buttons

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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.

  Morgan Freeman

  School, Technique, Gone

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• There are actually two separate issues here. The first is whether (as ancient philosophers and Nietzsche assume) only the privileged elite can live a worthwhile life. The second is whether it's possible to fulfill the roles of both serious artist and upstanding citizen. It seems to me that philosophy can dissect both questions, by delineating clearly the anatomy of the good life and the structural conditions of the roles.

  Philip Kitcher

  Good Life, Philosophy, Artist

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of possibilities. If readers are to be prompted to serious examination of their lives, anatomy isn't enough. We have to be stimulated to imagine, in some detail, what it would be like to live in particular ways.

  Philip Kitcher

  Details, Would Be, Examination

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile.

  L.A. Paul

  Philosophical, Different, Philosopher

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I have often felt like I was the only one fighting against female genital mutilation. There is still a huge taboo surrounding the topic, because it involves the most private parts of the female´s body. But whenever I feel like this is too much for me to do, I read e-mails and messages I receive every day from people thanking me for speaking up for them, for giving them a voice. These messages let me know that I am not alone, and that what I do is worthwhile.

  Waris Dirie

  Fighting, Voice, Speaking Up

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• I would like to be remembered for the schools and hospitals and bridges and all the other activities that we did with the Sherpas. Unquestionably, they are the things I feel that were the most worthwhile of everything I was involved in.

  Edmund Hillary

  School, Bridges, Sherpas

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• As for the discipline, we [me and Frank Moore Cross] belong to two different disciplines. One involves research and archaeological materials. Mine is more interpretive. But it is the love for the text that is there, and that is what makes the whole adventure of reading and studying and sharing worthwhile.

  Elie Wiesel

  Reading, Adventure, Two

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny [Bruce], certainly not in terms of social commentary.

  George Carlin

  Believe, League, Social

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• If you talk to these young men and women who are fighting, they'll tell you that they think it's a worthwhile cause, and they're fighting for freedom, and they-well, they-all I'm saying-the overwhelming majority of them do.

  John McCain

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• 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.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Writing, Care

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If I am facing problems and difficulties and I find an answer, I am very eager to share it with someone else. It kind of makes going through the problems or difficulties worthwhile.

  Vonette Bright

  Answers, Kind, Problem

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• It doesn't seem to occur to men that woman might be a worthwhile end in herself, or to see to it that she has a proper sexual release. And, to him, sex appeal is directly proportional to the immensity of a woman's tits.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sex, Men, Might

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• As I've picked up more responsibilities in life, I've found nearly every one of those extra burdens drains me in a way that makes writing more difficult. That may not be the case for everyone - I know plenty of writers and artists who seem to have energy in abundance for all the facets of life; but are they producing anything worthwhile?

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Responsibility, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money to give brilliant Chinese students an opportunity to study abroad, then this embodies everything I believe in: education, globalization, social mobility. I am an example of social mobility.

  Zhang Xin

  Believe, Heart, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Only a very small proportion of us take those excesses with us into later life. In the age before everyone had a camera, it was worthwhile, in my opinion, to record those excesses. Sometimes, many times actually, the young people I photographed were only dressed that way for one night; that one night that they got snapped by me.

  Derek Ridgers

  Night, People, Age

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Goal, Effort

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• Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.
  Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

  Roger Babson

  Character, Judgement, Trying

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• Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.

  Hugh Jackman

  Forever

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• Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!

  Sandy Lyle

  Winning, Pounds, Wells

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• The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

  Mike Berry

  Pursuit, Difficult

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