Valuable Quotes - Page 35

• If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

  Al Gore

  Price Tag, Tools, Looks

  Al Gore (2009). “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”, Rodale Books

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• Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Fall, Thinking

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• Gain knowledge. It's valuable.

  Daniel Norris

  Gains

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2015

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• The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

  Jimmy Wales

  Believe, People, Wikipedia

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• American field players would really help themselves if they were exposed to a steady stream of box experience. Box lacrosse is an extremely valuable background for a young player, we need to incorporate more of the indoor skills in to the field game. It is almost a requirement to have a top player with indoor experience on your roster right now.

  Dom Starsia

  Player, Games, Skills

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• I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.

  Rian Johnson

  Thinking, Ideas, Brain

  "Rian Johnson on his writing process and the appeal of alternate-history films". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

  Jeffrey Pierce

  Choices, Watches, Knows

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• I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.

  Craig McCaw

  Team, Thinking, People

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• I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Thinking, Air, People

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• Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Night, Light, Feelings

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• Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Hands, Progress

  "Homo Neanderthalensis Baltimore Sun". "The Impossible Mencken" by H. L. Mencken, June 29, 1925.

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• If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Humble, Understanding, Desire

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• For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Training, May

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• Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Why Not, Criticize

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• My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me incredibly valuable lessons about the art of taking time-outs. To this day, Bonnie is astutely aware of times when her energy dips too low and resolutely honors her need to rest. To boost her energy, she's been known to sit quietly with a cup of tea, adjourn a workshop we were co-facilitating to take a five-minute breather, or slip out of her own wedding reception to be restored by a few minutes of solitude in the sun.

  Sue Thoele

  Art, Solitude, Tea

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• It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Glimpse, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 10, 2014

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• Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals. We cannot sell the lives of men and animals. It was put here by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us

  Crowfoot

  Native American, Animal, Men

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• Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Animal, Order, Eggs

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men ... to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer is very simple. Publish an invention freely, and it will almost surely die from lack of interest in its development. It will not be developed and the world will not be benefited. Patent it, and if valuable, it will be taken up and developed into a business.

  Elihu Thomson

  Selfish, Taken, Science

  "Elihu Thomas lays down principles for inventors" by Thomas, E., Electrical World 75, (p. 1505), 1920.

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• Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

  Carl Jung

  Protection, Cramps, Ifs

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• Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Proportion

  "Caxtoniana". Essay XIV, 1863.

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• Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

  Rita Rudner

  Mother, Book, Men

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• Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

  Mark Twain

  Favors, Flattery, Compliment

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

  Mark Twain

  Eight, Weather, Ideas

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.513, Courier Corporation

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• Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

  Peg Bracken

  Eye, Iron, Pudding

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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