I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
When you spend seven years of your life working on something that you're really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.
In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.
I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one’s own limitations.
The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.
Life is a suffering. We suffer because we exist. So enjoy the sufferings with love to make life worthwhile to suffer for.
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Getting lost in the ‘big picture’ often prevents us from cherishing the 'small moments' that make it all worthwhile...
I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.
I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
Yes, it's worth it. The pain of sorrow is terrible and hard to bear, but the joy of love makes it worthwhile. p123
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
... the only thing that makes life worthwhile is loving orher people and being loved by them. - Pia Obrian
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
