Valuable Quotes

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.

And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

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.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

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.

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.

Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

I'm not Jesus, but I have very valuable information.

You put more value on every minute...You know I always kinda thought I did that. I really always enjoyed myself. But it's more valuable now. You're reminded to enjoy every sandwich and every minute.

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.

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

By providing memorable social media customer service, companies not only create deeper connections with consumers, but they glean valuable insights on how to improve their products or services.

Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.

Your most valuable currency is what comes most naturally to you. Cash in!

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

Give them a conscious understanding of how powerful and important and valuable and perfect they are.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.

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