I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.
This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.