My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

When you write a song like ‚Forrest Gump,‘ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

I will never retire unless I have to.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

I take my sleep very, very important.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.