Values Quotes

• If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with people who have two aces or two kings. If you catch a flop you will get all their chips. I just play them because there is value.

  

  Daniel Negreanu
  • People
  • Winning
  • Excellent

• Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.

  

  Paul Erdos
  • World
  • Mind
  • Earth

• Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.

  

  Bob Walker
  • Values
  • Train
  • Zero

• I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

  

  Ray Romano
  • Family
  • Standup
  • Spokesman

• Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words. Let your words be positive for they will become your actions. Let your actions be positive for they will become your values. Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Thoughts
  • Destiny
  • Values

• Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

  

  Gerald M. Loeb
  • Balance
  • Causes
  • Market

• My values tend to gravitate toward the older ways. There is a high degree of honor in being a troubadour. You sure can't be doing it for the money.

  

  Chuck Brodsky
  • Honor
  • Values
  • Troubadour

• We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.

  

  Eve Curie
  • Life
  • War
  • Fear

• But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Heart
  • Values

• 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.

  

  Merlin Olsen
  • Family
  • Environment
  • Laughter

• Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Safety
  • Diversity
  • Social

• What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Company
  • Term
  • Ethics

• We cannot and must not sit back and let the anti-biblical world system determine the prevailing values of our day.

  

  Bill Bright
  • Values
  • Prevailing
  • Anti-biblical

• "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.

  

  Arthur Demarest
  • Values
  • Innovations
  • Regimes

• Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It's not the only thing that defines you.

  

  Molly Tarlov
  • Values
  • Define

• Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to our own world perception and set of values.

  

  Amalia Kahana-Carmon
  • Reading
  • Values
  • Affirmation

• Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.

  

  Francis Atterbury
  • Writing
  • Judging
  • Intelligence

• Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Challenges
  • Endure
  • Impermanence

• The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Character
  • Crime
  • Presidential

• Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

  

  Caroline Norton
  • Values
  • Poet
  • Lays

• Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.

  

  Eric Abetz
  • People
  • Conservative
  • Middle

• Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Eyes
  • Values
  • Worth

• Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Real
  • Attention
  • Bits

• Architecture is an expression of values.

  

  Norman Foster
  • Values
  • Architecture
  • Expression

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