“I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.” PeopleThinkingOpinionAirBallsHotSacredValuableEndlessOur SocietyNot InterestedHot Air Author:Buzz Bissinger
“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?” MenMindMeanImportantCharacterSeemsPleasureResultsOpinionStudyGreaterGainsValuableGuestsBiographiesAcquaintanceElevation Book:Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete
“They won't choose Joakim Noah as the MVP, but I think it's great that he's in the conversation and he should be. But it's just not the way it works, from my experience. It's got to go in the basket for you guys to pay attention to somebody. But he's pretty damn valuable in my opinion.” ThinkingWayShouldGuyPayAttentionOpinionConversationValuablePay AttentionDamnNbaBasketsMvp Author:Gregg Popovich
“The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.” OpinionOne ThingCuriosityValuable Author:David Hare
“Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.” ThinkingKnowsLifeAsksEasyGrowthSituationOpinionKnowingWorstProducePersonal GrowthInvestingValuableWorst Situation Author:Ray Dalio
“I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.” MenI CanIdeasDifficultOpinionInformationConceptsDirectStructureWesternValuableFiltersInterveningBombarded Book:Travels Source: Travels
“I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHomeOpinionSeeingValuablePrioritiesGreat ThingsRealisingGrandparentDiversionDifferent LifeDifferent Opinions Author:Simon Hoggart
“I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance).” ActionLawViewsRaceOpinionGenerationsConnectionsOppositesFunctionValuableConnectedDeterminedAriseBranchesClosestAdaptationRapidsMaintenanceReciprocalPhysiologicalHeredityEmbryosRecapitulation Author:Ernst Haeckel