Values Quotes
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The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values. People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides.
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My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.
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For women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.
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Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
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I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.
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Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I would want to acknowledge is that perhaps the tension, the crucial tension, isn't necessarily between the view of bullfighting as a tradition versus as an art form, but between the values inside the ring and the values outside the ring.
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Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.
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I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.
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That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.
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The more you understand what somebody wants, needs, and fears, the more you can figure out how to add value.
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We have found that the values of the constants of nature have not been fine-tuned for life by accident, but that these values are constrained by and logically follow from the fundamental space-time organization of the Cosmic Tree of Life.
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It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.
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I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.
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"Hypercoherence" is one of the most dangerous threats to the long-term survival of our civilization. Hypercoherence is the close efficient linkage of all parts of the world economic, communication and transport systems. It has been crucial in the spread of great innovations, the rise of world wealth, and even the dissemination of democratic concepts and ethical values and the defeat of oppressive regimes.
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When I interview people, I look at their values. I always say that the best chance of success is if the individual's values are aligned with the corporate values.
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Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
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The focus of my life begins at home with family, loved ones and friends. I want to use my resources to create a secure environment that fosters love, learning, laughter and mutual success. I will protect and value integrity. I will admit and quickly correct my mistakes. I will be a self-starter. I will be a caring person. I will be a good listener with an open mind. I will continue to grow and learn. I will facilitate and celebrate the success of others.
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My job is to reaffirm the core vision and values that have made this company great and resolve the issues that have recently come to light.
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Values are a broad tendency to prefer certain states of affairs over others.
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We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
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Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
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I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.
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Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.
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My first word for the people of Brazil is the word 'confidence.' Confidence in the values that form the character of our people, the vitality of our democracy.
