I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
accident worth invention work
There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.
worth work
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
trust worth work
Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.
Whatever we are directed to pray for, we are also exhorted to work for; we are not permitted to mock Jehovah, asking that of Him which we deem not worth our pains to acquire.
pain worth work
It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.
rights worth work men
The test of the worth of work is its effect on the worker. If it degrade him, it is bad; if it ennoble him, it is good.
tests worth work
Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
results worth work
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice, no book - it is a plaything.
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
worth difficulties men
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
worth temper men
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
women worth men
Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.
style worth mind men
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
worth men
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
manners worth merit men
How do you decide a battle is lost? Numbers, strategic advantage, positioning? It's all worth a sparrow's fart. It comes down to men who are willing. The largest army will founder if its men are less willing to die than to win.
numbers worth men
These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
worth destiny men
Where, where was Roderick then! One blast upon his bugle-horn Were worth a thousand men.
Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.
trouble worth music
I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.
worth music
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.
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
clean worth conscience music
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
There isn't a text in the Bible better worth keeping always in mind than that one, 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.
worth mind
Shame is a secret pride; and pride is an error with regard to one's own worth, and an injustice with regard to what one has a mind to appear to others.
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