Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Arthur C. Clarke

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• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • Value
  • Yourself

• Cruelty is not a literary value.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Value
  • Cruelty
  • Literary

• The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Women
  • Money

• Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Value
  • Two
  • Quantity

• Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Face

• I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Work
  • Value
  • Investment

• On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Value
  • Heroism

• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Freedom

• Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Value
  • Successful

• It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Value
  • Daily

• One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Great
  • Important
  • Political

• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Fight
  • Self
  • Survival

• I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Value

• I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Up
  • Value

• What's really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they're working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Time
  • Country
  • Help

• Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Value
  • Inspiration
  • Changes

• Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• We still raise girls to look to other people for assurance they are attractive and smart, while boys are raised to determine their own value. Many girls are still made to feel it's not feminine to be good at science or math.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • People
  • Good
  • Science

• Do you dare deny my potency my kindness or forgiveness?

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Kindness
  • Forgiveness

• If I get to the end of my life, and people say, 'He was in 'Cold Feet,' well, I was, and it was great. I thought the fourth series wasn't great. I thought there were weak episodes throughout. Overall, I thought it was a good show, it had an impact, it dealt with a lot of issues, and it was a great part.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Intelligent

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Value
  • Survival