#worthwhile

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#could #day #due #encounter #entirely

It's time, we're waiting for you. We're tired of your excuses, your complaining, your everything else. We need you now more than we have ever needed you before, so it's time for you to use your boredom wisely. Yes there will be time for you to have fun, and life is indeed meant to be fun, but if you fill every waking moment with something to amuse you, then you will never accomplish anything worthwhile - which makes me concerned for you, because after all, if you were not meant for something worthwhile, then why exactly are you here? ↗

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

#excuses #inspirational #worthwhile #inspirational

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#else #matters #nothing #nothing matters #silence

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#could #gotten #i #least #myself

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say. ↗

— Tyrone Power

#films #i #knights #like #parts

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it. ↗

— Iris Dement

#began #how #make #really #since

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#becomes #been #before #fit #ghastly

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#cannot #devotion #discipline #duty #faith

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#danger #death #made #nothing #our

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#anything #become #been #defect #else