Quotes About Value

I wanted to see who I was, without using another person's love for me as a measurement of my value.

that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

No doubt he thought: This woman owns thousands of books and yet she's unwilling to lend me even one. But I treasure this volume, and I doubt that he'd be able to appreciate a single word of it.

If their mother complained that he hadn't brought back enough, he'd say, Better to eat a small piece of fish with flavor than a large one without. He'd witnessed a famine of devastating proportions, never taking a single meal for granted.

To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.

It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly.

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

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

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

I'm not going to work with a company that uses my artwork, which is precious to me, and not allow me to do certain things.

If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.