#valuable

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for! ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#buy #calculator #could #i #knew

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#else #fine #human #human values #valuable

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#benefit #come #country #diamonds #discovered

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#art-appreciation #artistic #artists #dead #death

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#because #care #criticize #i #me

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#hold #invaluable #missed #opportunity #tongue

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. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#given #image #important #me #messages

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. ↗

— Gary Miller

#addressing #affordable #assures #available #businesses

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#becomes #data #increasingly #information #intuition

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#children #considered #contest #divorce #ensue