The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette from the CD to the digital download these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed but the very way artists created it.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

Sexy in India is not considered positive. But with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena being sexy is an asset.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

You are your greatest asset. Put your time effort and money into training grooming and encouraging your greatest asset.

In my role as Wikileaks editor I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that and keep our sources safe we have had to spread assets encrypt everything and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

So I think that our foreign policy the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

I mean we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York that this city would be stopped totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.

As I get older my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

Yeah anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

Life in general has never been even close to fair so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work or friendship - two of life's major assets.

Watching John Lasseter's films I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

To finance this trade deficit the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks businesses and real estate to the rest of the world.