Value Quotes
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It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?
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Introversion, when embraced, is a wellspring of riches. It took me years to acknowledge this simple reality, to claim my home, and to value all it offers.
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We don't believe that current low yields offer great value and expected returns are not sufficient to have a lot of bond investments as diversifying assets.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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I've become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that's a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements.
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The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.
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I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.
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I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.
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Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
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My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.
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The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
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Consistent poetry is made of letters. Letters have no idea. Letters as such have no sound, they offer only tonal possibilities, to be valuated by the performer. The consistent poem weighs the value of both letters and groups.
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What would I tell her? That I have always known I belonged here? That one day some action will be required that will prove my life's value? A forty-six-year-old man, waiting for fate to take over... it likely already has. (p. 269)
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The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
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Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.
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I think we are part of the earth. The concept of the rainforest being the womb of life is something I believe in...the value system must get back to the environment as it was originally, the magnificence from where we emerged.
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The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. Their indifference to us ought to serve as a chastening reminder that we're not the measure of all things.
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Personal privacy is a closely held American value.
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Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.
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People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.
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Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!
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In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
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It's emotional for artists who are women and people of color to have less value placed on our worldview.
