As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never be worth your time and energy – and they take a lot of each. Toxic people create unnecessary complexity, strife, and, worst of all, stress.
There’s a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
Everything that’s worth making has to involve some sort of pain.
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
It’s always worth it when you come out here and put on a uniform and step on that field. It’s the best feeling you’ll ever have.
It’s worth being suspicious of writers – or anyone! – who does that myth-making thing. There’s always a tendency to retrospectively impose structures on a life. Life as it’s lived has a far more complex shape.
Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I’d look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit.
And I thought, my God, there’s an off chance that they will say something that’s really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?
All the games we play are worth the same because we can aim to get points in the league. Milan wants to fight until the end in the league and wants to compete with everyone until the last match day.
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war – nothing material or ideological – no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life – full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.
Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
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.
The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.
I really got my money’s worth from colleges in Sheffield and Rotherham because I kept dropping out, and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do at first, like a lot of teenagers.
A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace – you feel as though you’re where you’re meant to be.
Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president, because so many others gave their lives and didn’t get to see it, and I thank God for letting me see it.
You’ve just got to know yourself, and know what you’re worth, and know where you’re going, and know that you can always, always learn more.
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
It might be rare, but there are certain moments when you really don’t feel like yourself. When you are in the character so fully, it’s the best feeling ever. I so love it. Even if those moments come just once a day or every other day, they are just worth it.
A painting that doesn’t shock isn’t worth painting.
I make a lot of money and I’m worth every cent.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
We’re overpaying him, but he’s worth it.
There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it ‘Patrick.’ I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It’s insanity. I’m not going to do any of it.
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
Fort Worth is friendly; it’s still a Texas town. It’s the most Texas city in Texas.
More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.
A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn.
The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That’s the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That’s worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to.
All the things that are worth doing, take time.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Dallas is a great city, and it’s worth fighting for.
There is a cost for democracy. It is worth the cost when it comes to opening up access for voters.
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
It is the Nobel Prize I want. It’s worth $400,000.
We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It’s not worth their while going into work.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I’ve written hundreds of songs, and I’m sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It’s completely impossible. 2- It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.
Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.
I’ve always been a very artsy person, and I always preach self-confidence and knowing your worth.
If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it’s worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It’s like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
Millions of dollars’ worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader’s intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
