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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Marriage is an exercise in torture.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Marriage
  • Exercise
  • Torture

• I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Listening

• Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • May
  • Evil
  • Heaven

• I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Time
  • Destiny
  • Opportunities

• While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Time
  • Work
  • Police

• They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

  

  Karl Malone
  • School
  • Start
  • Uniform

• When I was little, we used to have Atari.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Used
  • Little
  • Atari

• Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Control
  • Medical
  • Data

• White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Racial
  • Credibility

• So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song "With Arms Wide Open" by Creed is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Violent
  • Horrible
  • Ass

• [Donald Trump] doesn't deal well with criticism and blame and I don't think he could competently manage the office of the presidency given the criticism and challenge that you face every single day as the President of the United States.

  

  William Weld
  • Thinking
  • Challenges
  • Criticism

• I think a lot of times in our adult lives, we either block out or straight-up forget about the challenges of being a kid. We know it's all going to work out, but when you're a kid in that moment, it feels like the whole world is coming down on you. I'm going to try to look back and remember that when my kids get in those situations.

  

  Pierre Bouvier Simple Plan
  • Kids
  • Moment
  • Challenges

• 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