Valuable Quotes - Page 27

• A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Thinking, Make You Think

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• Let me tell you how worthwhile you are. You are infinitely valuable to God. First, God created you. Second, Jesus died for you. Third, he puts his Spirit within you. Fourth, he wants you to be with him forever in eternity. That's how valuable you are to God. You are infinitely valuable to God.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Forever, Want

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• You can be so bad at so many things... and as long as you stay focused on how you're providing value to your users and customers, and you have something that is unique and valuable... you get through all that stuff.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Unique, Long, Stuff

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• The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

  Frank Capra

  World, Oscars, Public Relations

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Writing, Blood

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Long, Community

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.328, Library of America

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• In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• No [movie is really worth watching] which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility of character. There are enough [great movies] to occupy us during all our short and busy years. If we are wise, we will resolutely avoid all but the richest and the best.

  J.R. Miller

  Wise, Character, Years

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• Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  May, Certain, Delusion

  Richard Diebenkorn, John McEnroe, Jane Livingston, Barnaby Conrad (2003). “Richard Diebenkorn: figurative works on paper”, Chronicle Books

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• The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Principles, Philosophic, Thirds

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• A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

  Sayyid Qutb

  Bears, Martyr, Witness

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• If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen to something valuable, write it down. When you come across something important, write it down.

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Powerful, Writing

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• I think it is valuable to be poked at and I think - and this is obviously where things are headed. It's going to be much harder to be a Christian in America ... which means to be a Christian you actually have to think it's worth it. You actually have to think it through, you actually have to process it.

  Phil Vischer

  Christian, Mean, Thinking

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• Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

  David Bellos

  Creative, Brain, Use

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• The full-range-of-m otion exercise known as the squat is the single most useful exercise in the weight room, and our most valuable tool for building strength, power, and size.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Exercise, Tools, Weight

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• Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

  Randy Pausch

  Last Lecture, Be Good, Childhood Dreams

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Cheap work is seldom, if ever, valuable. Usually, it’s just cheap.

  Jim Connolly

  Ifs

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• A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Gold, Fortune, Disposition

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• ...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were it not for the superabundant numbers of the poor, the needy, and the sick... As long as this inequity rages in the world, these good works will be necessary and valuable to anyone practicing them and they shall yield the reward of an everlasting inheritance to the man of good heart and concerned will.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Heart, Men

  "Conferences".

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• You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Giving

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• Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

  David Bronstein

  Success, Player, Games

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.113, Courier Corporation

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• The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

  Albert Einstein

  Pursuit, Possession, Pursuit Of Knowledge

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• The leader...is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Ideas, Leader

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• You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Quality, Indispensable, Confidence In Yourself

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.434, Library of America

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• Sure, there are plenty of ways to waste this day. But you now have the chance to choose to make good and valuable use of it.
  
  Now is an opportunity to create value. And that opportunity cannot be delayed until later.
  
  Now is yours to use for whatever rich and fulfilling purpose you can imagine. Stand up, step forward, and get busy making the very best of now.

  Ralph Marston

  Opportunity, Purpose, Use

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