#worthwhile

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#anything #become #been #defect #else

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

— Robert Zemeckis

#could #good #hitchcock #i #kind

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#being #danger #exterminated #factor #history

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

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 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

Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. ↗

— Saint Frances de Sales

#existence #mistake #patience #perfect #triumph

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie. ↗

— Karl Urban

#enjoy #experience #film #get #hard

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile? ↗

— Donald Fagen

#how #into #something #transform #worthwhile