#val

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ago #arose #because #began #billion

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys. ↗

— Gloria Grahame

#life #peaks #series #through #valleys

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#first #genetics #get #guy #made

A simple idea. And the man that worked on it, Mike Gabriel, doubled the value. Beautiful job. I should say triple. We have others like that, but, unfortunately, shorts, which are my favorite approach, are economically of no value. ↗

— Joe Grant

#beautiful #doubled #economically #favorite #gabriel

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ↗

— Richard Grant

#course #identity #often #purpose #value

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent. ↗

— Norman Granz

#evaluate #go #networks #out #people

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price. ↗

— Norman Granz

#concerts #economic #fashion #festival #gives

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people. ↗

— Michael Graves

#call #care #i #labels #making

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. ↗

— Henry Miller

#best #beyond #defeat #friends #his

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever