Invaluable Contribution Quotes

The English remained paralysed by their own rivalries until the following April, at which point Aethelred made an invaluable contribution to the war effort by dropping dead, clearing the way for Edmund to succeed him. ~ Marc Morris

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

But this does not take away the fact that Luke sees the frustrations women face, including the constant discipline of being quietly useful while others crowd in to take the more obviously attractive roles. Furthermore, he remembers Jesus as a teacher who was willing to recognize the value of women's contribution. Working in partnership with a man also protected the women from being bothered by other men who resented their independent activity or simply wanted to meddle. For the women of Galilee, Jesus was invaluable as a sympathetic male focal point around which their activity could be organized. The presence of such a person in their midst would have been a godsend even if the man in question had not been a miracle-worker. ~ Kate Cooper

Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an invaluable contribution not only to journalism, but to society and to a healthy democracy ~ Alma Guillermoprieto

Our actions and words built invaluable relationship. ~ Kishore Bansal

Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others. ~ Debasish Mridha

Screening is an invaluable part of the process, obviously, having test screening and you definitely learn something. ~ Bryan Burk

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

What to do Before Your Book Launch is the new invaluable tool for writers. There is so much to know and now it's all in one place. ~ Julie Klam

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone. ~ Duke Ellington

Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable. ~ Peter Drucker

In business, there's such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one. ~ Malcolm Forbes

Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding. ~ Dick Motta

How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society? ~ John Kurtz

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate. ~ David Packer

Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you? ~ William Hundert - The Emperors Club

I went to collect the few personal belongings which ... I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude. ~ Colette

If you know that you have an invaluable gift in you,but still you are facing great difficulties,keep in mind that you are just paying for that invaluable gift.. ~ Vatsal Dave

When you reveal all you cheat the observer of their contribution. ~ Bryant McGill

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. ~ Bill Gates

Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet ~ John Guillebaud

Always try to be busy with valuable activities otherwise invaluable activities will definitely try to be busy with you ~ Arya Vidhan

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. ~ William James

Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable. ~ Adrian Bell

Because if it was a choice between him or me, I didn't think I'd be able not to put him first. He was the prince, and his life was invaluable to the country. But more than that, it was invaluable to me. ~ Kiera Cass

If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. They
can only imitate but never create. ~ Ravindra Shukla

Always think about how you can contribute and never think of how you can receive a contribution. ~ Debasish Mridha

I am able to make a contribution ... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting. ~ Morris Graves

Larousse is an invaluable tool for any cook. I've used this great resource all throughout my cooking career, and of course I look forward to the new edition. New information and knowledge are always welcome. ~ Thomas Keller

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. ~ Robert Kennedy

So, congratulations humans, your global contribution is now on par with a gigantic meteor slamming into the Earth. ~ Christopher Martenson

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it. ~ Brad Paisley

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it. ~ Charlie Kaufman

Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution. ~ Jane Ripley

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. ~ Wendell Berry

The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable ~ Rick Bayless

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself. ~ Frank Herbert

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

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Ambition without contribution is of no significance. ~ Kevin Kline

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. ~ Loretta Young

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable. ~ Tucker Max

If someone can make a contribution to the company he feels important. ~ W. Edwards Deming

We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better. ~ Boris Johnson

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

Programmes like the BES are what make the difference between a good university & one that is truly outstanding. I believe this programme will be invaluable for the future sustainability of Singapore and the region; perhaps even the world, if others follow our lead. ~ Geh Min

Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution. ~ Peter Drucker

A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others. ~ Zig Ziglar

Every individual in the world has a unique contribution. ~ Jack Kornfield

Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture. ~ Sue Wicks

His father had always said, Son, the most important thing in life is to make a contribution. Who would have thought Kittridge's contribution would be video-blogging from the front lines of the apocalypse? ~ Justin Cronin

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

There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey. ~ D.H. Lawrence

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else. ~ Ashly Lorenzana

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO. ~ Lancelot Hogben

I think for gay people to see gay people living honestly about everything they do is really a contribution. ~ Christopher Rice

You either have a useful contribution to make or you don't, regardless of whether you're head of the office or the emperor of China. ~ David Lagercrantz

Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace. ~ Carly Fiorina

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it. ~ Haldan Keffer Hartline

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail. ~ Henry B. Eyring

Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be ~ Viktor E. Frankl

One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life. ~ Stephen Hawking

Genuine collaboration is an environment that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation. ~ Jane Ripley

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork. ~ William F. Nolan

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology ... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it. ~ Colin Powell

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds ... flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism. ~ Ann Zwinger

We should listen to both philosophers and scientists, because the philosophical contribution is different from the scientific contribution, and both of them are worthwhile. ~ L.A. Paul

Influencing the world for good starts with service, self-care and specificity in time contribution to family. ~ Richie Norton

Send me money, send me green, and Heaven you will meet. Make your contribution and you'll get a better seat. ~ James Hetfield

A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy in your life and how to be balanced, wise, and funny. ~ Frederick Lenz

There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. ~ Alexander Cockburn

The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining. ~ Martha Stewart

When I'm singing, I'm happy. I'm doing what I can do and this is my contribution to life. ~ Anita O'Day

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man ~ Rollo May

We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is. ~ Peace Pilgrim

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. ~ James P. Gorman

Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men. ~ Tansy Rayner Roberts

Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real. ~ Deepak Chopra

Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins. ~ Audre Lorde

In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society. ~ Robert Greene

It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics. ~ Thomas Reid

Compassion is determining one's contribution should go to a needy human and not a greedy one. ~ Jeffrey G. Duarte

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip. ~ John Cleese

The valid point or a valuable contribution of a deserving person has not been truly appreciated if he is respected equally with those people who only desire but don't actually deserve to be applauded. ~ Anuj

Casino owners spoke more loudly than any of the other kings of industry to defend their contribution to society. They could speak more loudly because theirs was the purest activity of civilized man. They had transcended the need for a product. They could maintain and advance life with machines that made nothing but money. ~ Jane Rule

Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution. ~ Marianne Williamson

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

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur. ~ Patti Smith

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable. ~ John F. Kennedy

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it. ~ Mother Teresa

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

We have a business plan, a life plan, and a financial plan, how about a contribution plan. ~ Suzanne F. Stevens

I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation. ~ Howard Hughes

The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality. ~ David Whyte

If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development. ~ Narendra Modi

Are you willing to take the Big Leap to your ultimate level of success in love, money, and creative contribution? ~ Gay Hendricks

You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind. ~ Vernon Johns

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

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use. ~ Roger Scruton