Quotes About Value

You have to treat everyone you meet as if they are the most important person in the world - because they are. If not to you, then to someone, and if not today, then perhaps tomorrow.

To those women drawn to the cross today, I'd like to offer four suggestions: know your value to Christ, feel his loving embrace in your life, experience the joy of joining in God's great work, and worship at the cross as you live out your life.

It is s shame that more people do not appreciate the value of "a good read". I was fortunate enough to have had elementary school teachers who would read to us while we were to put our heads down on the desk and visualize the story and characters. It set me up for a lifetime of enjoying reading....

Your true value doesn't come from the wonderful things you do, the children you raise, or the business you run. You are valuable because you exist.

Things that you can't go buy another one, that's what you gotta save.

I always thought it was a shame . . . that we didn't keep those things safe somehow.

Respect is not ever assigned it's earned.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

I'd be flattered if someone said that my work is "too weird" for them. I value the uncompliment.

Energy is the single thing of absolute value created in the Universe.

Life is billed at the cost of living.

The money is as good as you are.

Our time's the most precious thing we've got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us.

We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity.

Time itself made all things rare.

That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare. You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.

Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that the hot apple pies aren't excellent or that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can buy them for 99 cents. That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare.

Un millón de dólares. Racionalmente admitía que un kilo ya no era lo mismo que antes, y que tendría que pagar la plusvalía. Con todo, la cifra nunca había perdido la imponente rotundidad de su infancia; daba igual cuántos otros tipos comunes y corrientes también llegaran a ser «millonarios», la palabra todavía seguía teniendo su aquél.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously put you off the activity altogether.

Of course for professional traders on the stock exchange, money had always been imaginary - just as notional, just as easy come and easy go, as the points in a video game. Wage earners like Willing's mother thought money was real. Because the work was real, and the time was real, it seemed inconceivable that what the work and the time had converted into would be gossamer.

Por eso no tenía paciencia para con la descabellada distinción entre arte y artesanía que ponía a esta última en situación de desventaja desde un punto de vista comercial. Una jarra de barro para agua no valía prácticamente nada, pero si tenía un agujero en el fondo y era «arte», se podía pedir por ella un ojo de la cara. ¿No era una putada?

I do not run the federal mint. If they've decided to save on the costs of production, good for them. In an era of belt-tightening, it makes no sense to lavish resources on a mere medium of exchange, which has no value in and of itself but only represents value.

Obsequiousness was a quality that you bought. Fraudulence merely made the fawning seem more expensive.

Because all value is subjective, money is worth what people feel it's worth. They accept it in exchange for goods and services because they have faith in it.