Valuable Quotes - page 2

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. (Joseph Addison)
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis Bacon
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
Albert Einstein
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
John F. Kennedy
Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.
John Ralston Saul
Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.
Augusten Burroughs
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
Suze Orman
In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right. (Daniel H. Pink)
Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.
Amy Chua
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
Carl Hiaasen
Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
Karen Joy Fowler
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
Bo Bennett
I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.
Carlisle Floyd
The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
Howard Staunton
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.
Miroslav Vitous
There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.
Rita Coolidge
When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." ... this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
Rollo May
The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them? (Dan Millman)
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings.
Alfred Marshall
In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement.
J. G. Ballard