Alfred Worden Quotes

Where you stand on issues, how you live your life, and how much good you can do in the world are greater challenges than a lunar mission.

Alfred Worden

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• It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Important
  • Marriage

• Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Power
  • Words

• I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Sorry
  • Muslim

• I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Youth

• We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Know
  • Never
  • Navy

• There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Innocent
  • Policy

• I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Food

• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Never
  • Independent
  • Fruit

• While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Country
  • Day
  • Veterans

• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Up
  • Home
  • Game

• There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Complex

• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Doing
  • Motivational
  • Quit

• You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Money
  • Art

• I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Control
  • Rest

• Marriage is an exercise in torture.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Marriage
  • Exercise
  • Torture

• The world can fall to pieces around us, but in the end, we'll always make it back to us.

  

  Cassia Leo
  • World
  • Fall
  • Pieces

• I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.

  

  David Travis
  • Creative
  • Challenges
  • Process

• For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Christian
  • Influence
  • Destroy

• The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • People
  • Things
  • Liberty

• Where you stand on issues, how you live your life, and how much good you can do in the world are greater challenges than a lunar mission.

  

  Alfred Worden
  • Challenges
  • Mission
  • Lunar