Invaluable Quotes

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

Person, Student, Rule

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.
David Sedaris

Morning, Someone, Winning

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'
Jason Reitman

Life, Famous, Career

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

Training, Dying, Patients

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
James Dyson

Both, Partner, China

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot

History, Whole, Deadly

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

Life, Give, Play

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.
Noam Chomsky

Research, Internet, Tool

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.
Judy Holliday

Business, Experience, Learning

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
Vicente Fox

Experience, May, Together

I'm in a real minority as far as having really supportive parents in regards to the arts. They never batted an eye as far as not letting me do that stuff. That's invaluable. I can't believe how unabashedly supportive they were about everything, between music and acting.
Darren Criss

Music, Parents, Real

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
Sara Paretsky

Experience, Writing, Found

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.
Andrew Lang

Tongue, Hold, Missed

I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.
David Oyelowo

Life, Help, Nothing

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

Through, Find, Research

If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.
Frank Gaffney

Live, Enemy, Used

Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
Dana Rohrabacher

Country, Market, Foreign

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.
Nick Rahall

Rather, Unique, Absence

Having an education is invaluable.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.
Richard Holbrooke

United, Valuable, Nations

Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.
Philippe Perrin

School, High, Scientific

We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
John Bates Clark

Business, Doubt, Through

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.
George Combe

Mind, Friends, Rest

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.
Yul Vazquez

Yourself, Young, Advice

I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.
Peter James

Time, Travel, Book

Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
Nancy McKeon

Amazing, Ride, La

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.
Tommy Mottola

Experience, Learning, Everything

Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.
Jerome Isaac Friedman

Made, Energy, Effort

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

Life, Happiness, Ignorance

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.
Rob Andrew

Time, Club, Rugby

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