Worthwhile Quotes
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Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.
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Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
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I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.
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Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.
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The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.
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I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.
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I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.
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“If you can’t pat your feet and clap your hand to what I’m doing, then I’m not doing anything worthwhile”
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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.
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It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you--the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.
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The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to it's limited in voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
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A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.
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I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.
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The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.
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You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?
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Winning is great, but it's the long road to get there that makes it worthwhile.
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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.
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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.
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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
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There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.
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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.
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Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.
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It's not going to be easy. And nothing worthwhile is easy.
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The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.
