#worthwhile

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#everybody #gave #had #i #me

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#goals #personal #personal goals #predetermined #progressive

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. ↗

— Edward Teller

#prospect #retrospect #right #simple #will

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. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#forces #known #like #many #naturally

Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile. ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#important #line #movie #pace #phone

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#been #doing #i #interesting #level

Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#astronaut #being #career #challenging #feel

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#achievements #cannot #direction #done #great

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#also #because #burning #burning desire #compensation

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#ambition #courage #develop #different #especially