Values Quotes
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The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
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Belief in the deeper values of the common people is our only hope. We cannot judge from how people behave under pressure of a society that forces them to compete for self-interest or to be excluded. We must step out of our narrow social environment, and learn to know the underprivileged that have never participated in our activities. When we have them with us that will be real change from below.
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Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice.
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I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.
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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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A spatial, temporal work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.
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You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.
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Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.
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We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.
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I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
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I really believe in the value of just being more present with the people you're around.
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I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today are different, different in all ways. Their savagery is done in technical ways, so they are not called savages anymore. I don't know what savage means, really. There are good and bad in every race. There are traditional values that are good and bad. That goes for everybody.
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Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.
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The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.
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Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
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Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.
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In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.
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There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
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Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.
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I make it a point not to buy certain magazines, not because I am against tabloids or things like that, but I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world.
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The greater the value of what we want, the greater the sacrifice we will have to make.
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Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.
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The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.
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Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.
