Valuable Quotes - Page 19

• Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

  Mort Kondracke

  Political, Intellectual, Opponents

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• To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Stupid, Pieces

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

  Georg Cantor

  Education, Art, Math

  Doctoral thesis, 1867.

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• Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box - a valuable ability in today's world.

  Keith Devlin

  Education, Real, School

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• I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Book, Reading

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• One often reads about the art of conversation-how it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Agreement, Bird

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• Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

  Ben Horowitz

  Useless, Planning, Plans

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• Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.

  David Eller

  Real, Diversity, Tolerance

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• Time is one of our most valuable possessions. Use it wisely. Remind yourselves often that things that matter most should not be left to the mercy of things that matter the least.

  O. Leslie Stone

  Matter, Use, Mercy

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• Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

  Leonard Orr

  Law, Mind, About Yourself

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• It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

  C. L. R. James

  People, Deception, Sacred

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• Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

  Kate Klise

  Coins, Faces, Librarian

  Kate Klise, M. Sarah Klise (2011). “Till Death Do Us Bark”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's the power of great insights. Insights, not ideas. There's a difference. Ideas, valuable though they may be, are a dime a dozen in business. Insight is much rarer -- and therefore more precious. In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.

  Phil Dusenberry

  Ideas, Differences, Inspire

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• Befriending provides a valuable lifeline to many people who feel isolated in their communities often as a result of ill health or poverty. I would like to thank all those who volunteer as befrienders and I hope that your numbers will increase in coming years. Your kindness and hard work is, I know, very much appreciated by those you help.

  Charles Kennedy

  Kindness, Hard Work, Years

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• I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something. A coup de foudre – a bolt of lightning. It’s fun to get knocked out that way!

  Iris Apfel

  Song, Falling In Love, Fun

  " "Iris Apfel: the muse of New York" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2012.

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• Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.

  Abdul Kalam

  Issues, Views, Understanding

  Speech at the Banquet hosted by President of Philippines, mea.gov.in. February 04, 2006.

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• I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.

  May Sarton

  Light, Sloth, Important

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

  Amit Abraham

  Procrastination, Corruption, Subtle

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• Meet customers where they are; question how to make the tools customers use more valuable.

  Jack Dorsey

  Tools, Use, Customers

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• That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar; since they cannot but know that every human acquisition is valuable in proportion to the difficulty of its attainment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Character, Greatness, Effort

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.139

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• You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Marketing, Brilliance

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.7, Penguin

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• People don't want the raw data, but instead want marketers to decipher the tech speak for them and present the valuable insights.

  Jim Sterne

  Data, People, Marketing

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• It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Memories, Holiday

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• Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.

  Charles Bates

  Philosophy, Exercise, Realization

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• Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Weed, Giving, Infidelity

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