A Quote by Mason Cooley

Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

Mason Cooley

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Asset Away Curiosity Mostly

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

My net worth is the market value of holdings less the tax payable upon sale. The liability is just as real as the asset unless the value of the asset declines (ouch), the asset is given away (no comment), or I die with it. The latter course of action would appear to at least border on a Pyrrhic victory.

Warren Buffett

Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent.

John Hillcoat

I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.

Murray Bookchin

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

Paul Morphy

Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

Ken Bates

The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.

Roger Waters

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!

Anandamayi Ma

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

John Locke

Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.” Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

Duane Elgin

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

Normally, if I would read in a script that there's mostly flashbacks and mostly voiceover, I would run as far away as possible.

Reed Morano

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

David Attenborough

I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known ones and when discovered are valueless-very illustrations perhaps of their refinements in analysis, but very little aiding the progress of true science.

Michael Faraday

Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity when it's expressed in children as a pathway to household disaster. They're simply exploring their environment, manifesting their curiosity. So what you need to do is create an environment where curiosity is rewarded rather than punished, or thwarted.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Henry David Thoreau

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