Worth Quotes

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.