Value Quotes
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If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
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She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.
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Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.
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The value of a good idea is in using it.
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And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.
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Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
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The value of little things was heightened by her enjoyment of them; the value of life itself was heightened because she had bought her knowledge of it with bitter sorrow and yet in her old age could wear it with such grace.
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If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.
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Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
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Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
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Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.
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If you want anything to change, you've got to change it. If you want things to get better, you've got to get better. And the only way to really do well in life is to find more value than anybody.
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Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be.
