By-product Quotes

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age. View quote
Candice Bergen
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work. View quote
Juliette Lewis
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like. View quote
Steven Pressfield
Happiness is a by-product. It is not a primary product of life. It is a thing which you suddenly realize you have because you're so delighted to be doing something which perhaps has nothing whatever to do with happiness. (Robertson Davies)
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. View quote
Robertson Davies
Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment to worthy causes. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
Happinessis not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made. View quote
James Hillman
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. View quote
Sam Levenson
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing. View quote
Natalie Wood
Divorce is a by-product of the fact that maybe the nuclear unit is gone. View quote
Bob Geldof
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations. View quote
Paul Rand
Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. (Don Sutton)
One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
When [Born and Heisenberg and the Göttingen theoretical physicists] first discovered matrix mechanics they were having, of course, the same kind of trouble that everybody else had in trying to solve problems and to manipulate and to really do things with matrices. So they had gone to Hilbert for help and Hilbert said the only time he had ever had anything to do with matrices was when they came up as a sort of by-product of the eigenvalues of the boundary-value problem of a differential equation. So if you look for the differential equation which has these matrices you can probably do more with that. They had thought it was a goofy idea and that Hilbert didn't know what he was talking about. So he was having a lot of fun pointing out to them that they could have discovered Schrödinger's wave mechanics six month earlier if they had paid a little more attention to him. View quote
Edward Condon
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. View quote
Ayn Rand
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey