#worthwhile

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#become #doubt #importance #inclined #influence

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#alone #live #must #nothing #obsessively

Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#astronaut #being #career #challenging #feel

I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks. ↗

— Bob Odenkirk

#because #become #could #crazy #fear

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#achievements #cannot #direction #done #great

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#game #hand #i #i think #play

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement. ↗

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#any #each #make #millions #moment

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#also #because #burning #burning desire #compensation

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#ambition #courage #develop #different #especially

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape. ↗

— Mark Strand

#form #hardly #merely #out #poem