Invaluable Quotes

• A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.

  Li Ka-shing

  Balance, Reputation, Assets

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• He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

  Andrew Lang

  Opportunity, Tongue, Public Speaking

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• Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

  Walter Annenberg

  Team, Play, Giving

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• There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Ignorance, Vanity, Pay

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.197

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• Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

  Stanislav Grof

  Training, Dying, Patient

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• What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

  Walter Scott

  Women, Diaries, Treasure

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• I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.

  Nora Roberts

  Email, Tools, Use

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• Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Determination, Anger

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.

  Peter Drucker

  Planning, Project Management, Plans

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• Experience is invaluable. I can't express enough how much experience in this sport has helped me as a driver.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Sports, Enough, Drivers

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• Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life.  With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.

  Martin Seligman

  Meaningful, Optimism, Belief

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.11, Vintage

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• What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.

  Damon Albarn

  Mean, Musician, Working With Others

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• We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Men, Beast

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• Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.

  Stephen King

  Honesty, Practice, Indispensable

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• A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.

  John Lahr

  Book, Artist, Theatre

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• In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document, back through the years, his contributions to the science of our world society remain invaluable. One reverently speaks of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin—the shapers of humanity’s richest present and future.

  Paul Robeson

  Our World, Years, Humanity

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend this book for developing leaders at all levels in any organization, military of civilian.

  William R. Looney III

  Military, Book, Organization

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• I was very thrilled to witness the workby my ol' buddy Jim Widner whose expertise in the field of jazz education proved invaluable in putting this masterful CD (Yesterdays & Today) together.

  Clark Terry

  Yesterday, Cds, Together

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• Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Odds

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.209, Random House

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• Having an education is invaluable.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

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• Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

  Richard Land

  Religious, Differences, Belief

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• The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'.

  Brigid Brophy

  Fun, Butterfly, May

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• My mother knew if you bought a couple of really good architectural outfits and put your money into accessories, you could create a million different looks. She taught that to me, which I think was invaluable.

  Iris Apfel

  Mother, Couple, Thinking

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• As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

  Noam Chomsky

  Tools, Research, Internet

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• George Grant's writing is an invaluable asset to Americans in general, and to the pro-life Americans in particular. I am grateful for his leadership and courage to defend the sanctity of life, and to tell the truth at all costs.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Grateful, Writing, Pro Life

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