“The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an existence independent of anyone's awareness of it. When it comes along, it always has, at first, a low value. Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.” FirstsFactsValuesExistenceQualityWonderfulAwarenessBirthLowsDiscoveryIncreaseIndependentDisappearWonderful ThingsObserversPresumptionLooseness Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.” PeopleMayDifferentStoriesTogetherValuesIndividualWalksCommonWonderfulShareIdealsExcellenceAccomplishCelebrateRecognitionWonderful ThingsWalks Of LifeTogether We CanDifferent Walks Of Life Author:Barack Obama
“I'm beginning to appreciate the value of naps. Naps are wonderful, aren't they? Sometimes now I have to take a nap to get ready for bed.” SometimesValuesWonderfulReadyBedAppreciateNaps Author:Marsha Warfield
“Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I - it's - I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values.” MenWellsMeanCountryHumorAmericaPoliticalValuesNationsPresidentRightsWonderfulProudHonorBlessedOur CountryFourthJulyPolitical HumorUnimaginableStartersInalienable RightsProud Man Author:George W. Bush
“There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.” ThinkingChildrenValuesFatherParentNaturalWonderfulFineUniqueCatholicConservativeTendenciesLabelsSocialistCricketers Author:Richard Dawkins
“If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.” IfsKnowsHumansValuesHuman BeingsKnow HowWonderfulCrazyMadnessInvestingStrikesListsBuyingCharlieLikelihoodAttractivenessDiversification Author:Warren Buffett
“Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.” ShouldYearsHeartLongAbleLastsValuesBusinessCompanyProgressWonderfulBuiltArgumentCorePreservesThriveConvincingJerryMiningFluxUnchangingRetaining Author:Kevin Kelly
“Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.” WayMeanMatterValuesLevelsWonderfulAwarenessUniversalNo Matter WhatGood ThingsUniversityEducation SystemKindergarten Author:Dalai Lama
“The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.” ValuesFatherWonderfulGrudge Author:Jon Stewart
“We try to use obvious Canadian touches whenever we can, and I'm really proud of the way we use Vancouver for its production value. Nobody is pretending that we're not shooting in Canada, which is really important to me. The other wonderful thing is that ABC has bought us, but they air us after CTV has had the full season air on Canadian television. That's another thing that I think is really a nod towards the importance of us acknowledging our own industry.” ThinkingWayTryingImportantUseValuesWonderfulAirTelevisionIndustryProudSeasonsImportanceProductionsObviousShootingCanadaPretendingWonderful ThingsVancouver Author:Kristin Lehman