Valuable Quotes - Page 17

• A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.

  Wes Jackson

  Exercise, Emotional, Land

  Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.89, Counterpoint

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• It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.

  Herb Kelleher

  Practice, Trying, Imagine

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• I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Favors, Helping

  William Howard Taft (1910). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910”

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• Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

  Adam Grant

  Yards, Marathon, Giver

  Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.20, Penguin

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• One of the greatest struggles of the healing process
  is to forgive both yourself and others
  and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.

  Caroline Myss

  Hurt, Struggle, Healing

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Why People Don't Heal and How They Can”, p.78, Harmony

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• It is possible to conceive conflict as not necessarily a wasteful outbreak of incompatibilities, but a normal process by which socially valuable differences register themselves for the enrichment of all concerned.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Healing, Differences, Normal

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

  Adolf Galland

  Passion, Ties, Track

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again, I have seen aggressive action, even from a disadvantageous position, completely rout a powerful Nip formation.

  Charles H. MacDonald

  Powerful, Pilots, Lists

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• All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Photographer, Curious

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.214, New Riders

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• Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Wisdom, Advice, Pearls

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• There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable

  Wayne Dyer

  Silence, Meditation, Silence Is

  Wayne Dyer (2002). “Getting in the Gap”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

  Bill Hybels

  Leader, Energy, Assets

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• The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime

  John Ashcroft

  Suicide, Punishment, Way

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• If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for clues about the nature and origin of human society. Consequently it was an injury to science and human knowledge to allow the military to simply exterminate them.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Military, Clue, Injury

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• You put more value on every minute...You know I always kinda thought I did that. I really always enjoyed myself. But it's more valuable now. You're reminded to enjoy every sandwich and every minute.

  Warren Zevon

  Sandwiches, Minutes, Enjoy

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• The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sometimes, Products

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.51, Elsevier

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• The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

  Ariel Durant

  Conservative, Radical, Propose

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, Simon and Schuster

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• Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

  Utah Phillips

  Children, America, Done

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• You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable natural resources?! Have you seen a strip mine? Have you seen a clear cut in the forest? Have you seen a polluted river? Don't ever let them call you a valuable natural resource! They're going to strip mine your soul. They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!

  Utah Phillips

  Inspirational, Nature, Cutting

  "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere". Album by Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco, October 15, 1996.

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• Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mean, Gentleman, Leisure

  The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 4 (1899) See Rae 1

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• It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health.

  Maud Grieve

  Fruit, Lemons

  Maud Grieve (1971). “A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, & Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses”, p.475, Courier Corporation

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• Agents are probably going to hate me for saying it... You're not very valuable when you're making $20 million. When you're Mike Trout, making the minimum, you are crazy valuable. My first six years, before I was a free agent, I was very valuable. But there's nothing you can do that can justify a $20 million contract.

  Mark Teixeira

  Hate, Crazy, Years

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• As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Mother, Men, Arrogance

  "The riddle of the universe".

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• I am troubled... that someone would sell a book, trading on their former service as a government insider with access to our nation's most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001.

  Bill Frist

  Book, Government, Order

  Bill Frist's Speech on The Testimony Of Former Top Counterterrorism Adviser Richard Clarke Before the September 11 Commission, www.foxnews.com. March 26, 2004.

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• You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

  Peter Thiel

  Want, Lasts, Categories

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