Value Quotes

• One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the highest value in the Kosmos-the Universal Self, also known as God, Kami, or Brahma, or by many other names.

  

  Yasuhiko Kimura
  • God
  • Value

• The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.

  

  Edward M. Purcell
  • Important
  • Significance
  • Theorem

• Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

  

  Albert Warren "Tillie" Tillinghast
  • Home
  • Respect
  • Play

• The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Light
  • Alone
  • Taken

• We basically built a pricing model that surgically identified what people wanted to pay us for and what they didn't want to pay us for. One of the things we figured out early on was that we could create value for people by creating a product that allowed them to design something that they couldn't design without us.

  

  Alexa Hirschfeld
  • People
  • Design
  • Model

• We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Value

• But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

  

  Martin Feldstein
  • Value
  • Beginning
  • April

• A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Live
  • Value

• Only ideas won by walking have any value.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Value
  • Ideas
  • Walking

• The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

  

  Ken Hensley
  • Past
  • Value

• Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

  

  Joseph A. Schumpeter
  • Value
  • Entrepreneur

• I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.

  

  James Gleick
  • Time
  • Value

• I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.

  

  Jil Sander
  • Value

• The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

  

  Benedetto Croce
  • Value
  • Translation
  • Work Of Art

• There's a value in used electronic equipment, and currently, there are small, domestic recyclers that process this equipment safely. But they have a hard time competing with facilities overseas that have few, if any, environmental and safety standards.

  

  Gene Green
  • Time
  • Small
  • Safety

• The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Stop
  • Value

• After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Mind
  • Value
  • Sick

• Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Value

• Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

  

  Plato
  • Money
  • Value
  • Company

• Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

  

  Anita Roddick
  • Education
  • Health
  • Value

• With any movie that gets remade, whether I like the remake or not, I'm glad that I can still go watch the original that I love. If the remake is offering something different, I really value that because I'm having a new experience and adding something new to my life.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Life
  • Different
  • Experience

• Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.

  

  Lucy Powell
  • High
  • Focus
  • Financial

• If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Star
  • Search
  • Concentrate

• There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music
  • Value

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