(326 quotes found)
“If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain”
Edmund Burke
“We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.”
T.S. Eliot
“In business, as most of it is constituted today, a man becomes valuable only as he recognizes the relation of his work to that of all his associates. One worker more or less makes little difference to most big organizations, and any man may be replaced. It is the cumulative effort that counts.”
W. Alton Jones
“Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.”
Sinclair Lewis
“[Desktop search] is very valuable for corporate workers, ... Once they understand [how to use] desktop search, [workers] can't conceive of a time when they did not have it.”
Whit Andrews
“I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.”
Billy Joel
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
Jerome Bruner
“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.”
Albert Einstein
“Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, "what is the most valuable use of my time right now?"”
Brian Tracy
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
