It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.
One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.
If you've got a regular feed of winners, you control your mind to do it. It becomes a must. If you didn't have that regular flow of winning, whether you could get yourself to do that, I don't know. It's a lot easier when you know the next day you can win and you can win and win, it's worth doing it.
I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together.
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.
After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.
They say I'm worth either €200 million, €100 million, €50 million or €10 million, but that's something between God, the HMRC and myself.
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.