Words matter. These are the best Why Bother Quotes from famous people such as Heather Brooke, Charli XCX, Chuck Eddy, Molly Ivins, Jackie Collins, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In Britain, it’s bred into you, the idea that you can’t really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view – you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It’s how you’re raised.
I like working really fast. The best ideas are the first ones that come into your head – so why bother thinking of any more?
If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?
Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?
My philosophy is, unless you’re sick and need help, why bother?
I don’t like sequels at all. If the movie’s good the first time, why bother?
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes – it’s possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect so why bother.
I believe that when you’re in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner… or why bother? So in that sense I’m an incurable romantic when it comes to men.
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?
If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
I’ve always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you’re not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?
The promotional cycle’s this staging area for failure. I hate it! Why bother when everyone’s either gonna steal the album or copy it?
I ought to be more hardboiled; I’d like to be. I don’t think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes… I can’t do it, so why bother trying?
I’ve been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don’t want to see these people naked. Most people look better with their clothes on, and the few that don’t, look better than you, so why bother?
I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that’s colonization. I’m not interested in that.
I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it?
Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
To change, to convert? Why bother?
The things that have been most popular with people have always been a total surprise, and so I’ve never felt like I could really truthfully predict public taste, so why bother?
Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Before you take your address, while you’re still reading the putt, imagine the ball tracking on the line you’ve chosen and falling into the cup. If you don’t believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?
I have great Indian genes! You know, I’m lazy. I want to take advantage of the fact that I have a great metabolism. When I start getting fat, I’ll work on it! I like food, and I don’t like the gym, and as long as I look like this without doing anything, why bother?
My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?
