Valuable Quotations

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

The most valuable aid I have found in teaching is to remember my own experiences as a student.

The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.

The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

Traditional social media, in the view of our company, has become a bit repetitive. It doesn't feel very good to be marketed to by your friends. Snapchat is different because it says, look, friends aren't valuable to you just because they can get you into a cool party.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.

Everybody understands that you're supposed to say 'our employees are our most valuable asset' to the point where, even if it's really true, they're not going to really trust you until you've earned that - same with customers.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset.

In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.

It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee had a good story, I'd be part of it in a second.

I feel strongly that degrees are really valuable to people, and having MOOCs allow for credit down the line will increase the number of students with the confidence and wherewithal to complete degrees.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

We can get carried away with our heads in books, and although there's so much to be learned from that, I think sitting in a cafe and speaking with someone - whatever it is, their mannerisms, their choices, are just as valuable as any class you can go to.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

I actually take karate and tae-kwon-do. And so I love sparring and grappling and all that physical stuff. I studied a hybrid form of grappling, sparring, and self defense; it's more of a 'get yourself in shape,' and if you want to take it to the next level, so you're really learning valuable skills with self defense, and I really enjoy it.

It's been said that members of Congress love receiving pats on the back weekdays in Washington, D.C., but they would benefit greatly from going home regularly to receive valuable slaps on the back of the head in their districts.

Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.

I began these clinics because I want to share my years of experience in around the ring, in addition to my proven winning methods. I have seen the good and the bad. I have learned valuable lessons, which I want to pass along to those truly interested in the sport.

The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen.

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.

A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless.

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.

You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

We have people who pay to use our products and services, and they are heavily engaged in our content. If you erase the brand perceptions of AOL, and consider that people pay to use our properties, you would probably consider this one of the most valuable audiences on the Internet.

Although not yet routine, many cancer centers have the technology to sequence some or all of a patient's cancer genome. This can provide massive amounts of valuable information about your cancer, including whether you have genetic mutations and other abnormalities for which new drugs are available.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

As I look into the future, I see radical changes in both how people 'attain beauty,' and how the world perceives beauty. In general, I believe traditional beauty will be less valuable - and more uniqueness will be heralded.

Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.

All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those are the kinds of things we're learning from the science. Fuel transfer technologies and all the things we can learn about the space environment are all valuable to us for pressing on out.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.

Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable.

When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.

If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot automatically has a special aura for me. In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokaster, my home city, and Tirana.

Free speech is a valuable commodity, which we preserve and protect, but there quite rightly is restriction on free speech in the best interest of the good order of the community and common sense.

As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.

A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.

I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful - and valuable - is each human life.

I respect all the teenagers I work with and feel that everything they have to say is just as valuable as anything I have to say.

When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

If the parents are too busy to read, it's a safe bet the children will feel the same way. Set aside time for family reading each night. It doesn't matter so much what the kids read, as long as you provide them space for reading and a sense that it is a valuable part of your daily routine.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It's the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being.

In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.

The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.

Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.

You could say that I am the Estee Lauder woman. I'm a working mother; time is valuable to me. I want a good product; I want quality.

You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.

I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.