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Quotes About Worth

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.
~ Pete Conrad
Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.
~ Stanley Kunitz
I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn't be so grateful. Know what you're worth. Walk away.
~ Amy Pascal
The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.
~ Theaster Gates
Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for.
~ Nancy Hale
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.
~ Douglas Adams
Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
~ Harold Ross
When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened.
~ David Kim
It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.
~ Franklin Knight Lane
When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.
~ Henry Rollins
Cheap work is seldom, if ever, valuable. Usually, it's just cheap.
~ Jim Connolly
That would be something I would stress the most to any artist - is, number one, don't ever allow, you know, success or whatever you want to call it to determine your worth as an artist or as a person. That's number one. And number two, do it because you love it.
~ Beth Hart
Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.
~ Keri Russell
I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention to it. But in that sense, Oprah Winfrey is worth all the jackets in the world. A jacket is basically trying to do what she does all on her own.
~ Chip Kidd
We often judge people by their cars and the money they have... Sometimes worth is decided based on outer appearances and that's sad.
~ Saba Qamar
There's no such thing as overpaid.
~ Gilbert Arenas
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
~ Tom Stoppard
Never judge a book by it's cover . . . judge it by it's price.
~ Unknown
No living thing is insignificant.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Beyond meeting simple immediate needs, the Navajo Way placed little worth on property. In fact, being richer than one's clansmen carried with it a social stigma. It was unnatural, and therefore suspicious.
~ Tony Hillerman
We have reached a veredict, your honor. This man's heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.
~ Tony Kushner
The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.
~ Tori Amos
What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga