Worthwhile Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to simply assuming that it's all a natural process and there's no design in it. Because your public persona is designed, to a certain extent, and you can have fun and profit at various times doing that.

  Tony Kushner

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People are gonna think that MTV censored me, and they really didn't. I really wanted to try to make a show that didn't rely on offensive, edgy material because I think it was an exercise in trying to write without that. Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.

  Bo Burnham

  Writing, Kids, Exercise

  Source: www.uloop.com

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• There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

  David Hewson

  Believe, Writing, Luck

  David Hewson (2012). “Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel”, p.227, A&C Black

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• It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.

  David Baldacci

  Believe, Passion, Thinking

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Christmas Train”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

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• In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Feels

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• There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Buddhism

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• Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

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• Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Success, Goal, Realization

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• The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Live Life, Heart

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• I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Kind, Hitchcock

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• You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.

  Tom Ford

  Able, Single Man, Made

  "Fictional character: George". "A Single Man", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

  Robert Jordan

  Pigs, Fool, Acorns

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.488, Macmillan

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• It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Real, Successful

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• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  Iris DeMent

  Suffering, Want, Has Beens

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• ...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Real, Believe, Future

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• A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Believe, Future, Grandchildren

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.123, SPCK

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