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• What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Mentor, Looks, Care

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• Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.

  Simon Sinek

  Believe, Stories, May

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Apr 15, 2011

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• Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

  Carli Lloyd

  Kind, Life Is, Hard

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.

  Hugh Hefner

  Thinking, Play, America

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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• Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Heaven, World, Earth

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• In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Art, Mean, Practice

  Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz

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• Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  World

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• When you spend seven years of your life working on something that youre really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

  Danielle Fishel

  Years, People, Passionate

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• I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

  Charles Grodin

  Confused, People, Want

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 24, 2002.

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• There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.

  Paul Theroux

  Problem, Problem Solving, Difficulty

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say "no" in the presence of those who mock and jeer, wins the respect and love of men and women whose opinion is most worthwhile.

  David O. McKay

  Girl, Character, Sacrifice

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• You cannot make anything worthwhile in this world unless you have first developed and transformed yourself.

  Robert Greene

  World, Firsts, Transformed

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.74, Profile Books

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• What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

  John Muir

  Dream, Adventure, Thinking

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• You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing.' I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can't give up easily. You've got to hang in.

  Paul Anka

  Giving Up, Grandmother, Laughing

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• Satisfy the deep subconscious needs of your customers - to feel important, to feel valued, respected and worthwhile

  Brian Tracy

  Important, Needs, Subconscious

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.10, Jaico Publishing House

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• The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.

  William Feather

  Thrill

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• With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Dream, New Year, Moving

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• Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for you. Third, he puts his Spirit within you. Fourth, he wants you to be with him forever in eternity. That's how valuable you are to God. You are infinitely valuable to God.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Forever, Want

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• Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

  Abraham Maslow

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Needs

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• Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

  David Bellos

  Creative, Brain, Use

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• There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.

  Samuel Beckett

  Writing, Two, Paper

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• If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

  James Dean

  Goal, Mark, Not Afraid

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• To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Secret, Purpose, Accomplished

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• I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today.

  Chuck Feeney

  Believe, Giving, Delay

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• Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

  Matt Haig

  Dark, Light, Mind

  Matt Haig (2013). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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