Valuable Quotes - Page 21

• There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

  Robert Winston

  Communication, Animal, Needs

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• Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.

  Pal Benko

  Player, Chess, Endgame

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• Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Rain, School

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• No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

  Seamus Heaney

  Strong, Tree, Heaven

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• Focus is more valuable than IQ.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Focus, Achievement

  Twitter post from Mar 5, 2014

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• So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Responsibility, Ideas, Firsts

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• The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Book, Recalls

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• Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Skills, Genius, Splendid

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• "Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.

  Jimmy Carter

  Attitude, Mountain, Growing

  Carter, Jimmy (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977”, p.972, Best Books on

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• The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.

  Jared Diamond

  Cancer, Drug, Survival

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• The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority, because without it authority often goes unchecked.

  George Clooney

  Responsibility, Media, Years

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• It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Growth, Business Growth

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• Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

  Beth Moore

  Men, Mirrors, Guy

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.7, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Governments can enhance growth by increasing inclusiveness. A country's most valuable resource is its people. So it is essential to ensure that everyone can live up to their potential, which requires educational opportunities for all.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Educational, Opportunity

  "The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them". Book by Joseph Stiglitz, 2015.

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• Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

  Thomas Gray

  Book, Writing, Fool

  Letter to Horace Walpole, 25 February 1768, in H. W. Starr (ed.) 'Correspondence of Thomas Gray' (1971) vol. 3, letter 471

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• Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tasks, Genius, Individual

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• It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

  Prince Philip

  Song, Singing, Classic

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• I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking, Looks, Way

  Interview with Christiane Amanpour, edition.cnn.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Not yet have I found any better method to prosper during the future financial chaos, which is likely to last many years, than to keep your net worth in shares of those corporations that have proven to have the widest profit margins and the most rapidly increasing profits. Earning power is likely to continue to be valuable, especially if diversified among many nations.

  John Templeton

  Years, Profit Margin, Corporations

  "Sir John Templeton: Financial Chaos and Investing" by Janet Tavakoli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

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• The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

  Bill Toomey

  Country, Men, Culture

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• Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time people talk and they tell us what they know.

  John Abizaid

  Cells, People, May

  "General John Abizaid". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Ideas, Different, Hiv

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• Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it’s often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, or honor. They will pass away, but love remains.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Love Is, Honor, Passing Away

  Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare Day by Day, Gift Edition: A Year of Devotions for Couples”, p.1, B&H Publishing Group

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• But business is just a vehicle for transforming the ideas in your head into something real, something tangible, that actually improves the lives of others. To create something unique and beautiful and valuable is very hard. It’s very special to do. It doesn’t happen fast.

  James Altucher

  Beautiful, Real, Unique

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• But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Communication, Tools, Addresses

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