#worth

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#builders #candidates #consideration #election #executives

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#bogus #celebrates #general #good #good work

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#attempt #serious #something #try #worthwhile

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. ↗

— George Wald

#having #ideological #material #nothing #nuclear

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me. ↗

— Vera Wang

#any #athletic #bed #compete #done

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century

It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#awful #better #change #gotten #gratifying

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#actions #alone #determines #worth #your

I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #chinese #clear #context #directions

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it. ↗

— Jack Welch

#ceo #ceos #company #could #cultural