Valuable Quotes - Page 39

• The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more valuable one is the ancient function of metaphor, as it was of alchemy.

  Patricia Hampl

  Light, Substance, Golden

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• A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow, but thinks he is good enough to pretend to any woman.

  Mary Astell

  Sex, Husband, Men

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.

  Lord Acton

  Might, Ends, Subtle

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.76, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Having a great deal of opportunity proves nothing. Opportunity without creative action is like a brand new Ferrari without an engine. You possess something valuable, but it won't get you anywhere.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Opportunity, Creative, Ferrari

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• The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Running, Technology, Surveillance State

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• We should be cultivating our female workers. The truth of the matter is that women just see problems and solutions differently, and that's valuable.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Female, Matter, Problem

  "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Сase studies are a tremendous device for developing problem solving skills, which are really valuable.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Skills, Study, Problem

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.

  Simon Sinek

  Sacrifice, Leader, Energy

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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• There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

  Marie Corelli

  Truth, Liars, Writing

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• Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor can anything restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honor and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement.

  David Hume

  Men, Honor, Age

  David Hume (1809). “Essays and treatises on several subjects in two volumes: Essays, moral, political, and literacy”, p.293

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• Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

  Theodore Parker

  Stars, Men, Telescopes

  Theodore Parker “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Politician, Modern, Explaining

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

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• Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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• Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

  Ada Leverson

  People, Merit, Modesty

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• the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Numbers, Astrology, People

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• Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

  Grace Paley

  Doe, Facts, Hindsight

  Grace Paley (2017). “A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry”, p.158, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.

  Elaine Morgan

  Moon, Men, Thinking

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• There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Wrestling, Men, Careers

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• It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Home, People, House

  Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) (1809). “The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents”, p.78

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• Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Oil, People, Age

  Anzia Yezierska (1985). “Hungry hearts and other stories”, Persea Books

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• In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.

  Rolf Potts

  Order, Choices, Liberty

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• Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Eye, Self

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• Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

  Kathy Reichs

  Mistake, Experience, Repeats

  Kathy Reichs (2015). “Grave Secrets”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Love Is, Giving, Essentials

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.158, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We all create expectations of what we would like to happen after a decision is made. The picture in our mind's eye might have served a valuable function in helping to make a decision. But once the decision is made, let the picture go. Since you can't control the future, the picture can create unhappiness if it's not fulfilled. Disappointment may make you miss the good that can come out of every situation in which you find yourself.

  Susan Jeffers

  Disappointment, Eye, Expectations

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.135, Random House

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