Values Quotes
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Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.
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We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good.
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I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.
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I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.
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The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.
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I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
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Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.
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I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
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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.
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One of the finest beliefs I developed years ago that helped me to enjoy all of my life experience was the idea that there are no bad experiences, that no matter what I go through in life - whether it's a challenging experience or a pleasurable one - every experience provides me something of value if I look for it.
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If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.
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Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects,--frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that, whoever values this gift in himself, has need of a good memory, and ought frequently to shift his company.
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I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And if, in the process, I have to sidestep around some very explosive mines, I will do that.
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The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
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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.
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I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality...
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If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
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Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
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The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.
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We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.
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Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.
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Now it is usual-but not to say normal-for people to interest themselves primarily in means, without noticing that means exist only in relation to ends and that, in accepting certain means, they unconsciously accept the ends that make them so. In other words, they accept whatever philosophy happens to be embodied in the values and institutions of a particular civilation.
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I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
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The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.
