Quotes About Value

Mom said that going back to an ex-boyfriend was like buying your own garage sale junk after the sale's over. Somebody else may think your old stuff is gold, but you know better. It's not golden for you.

Ah — but am I worth loving?

Courage, the writer Ambrose Redmoon said, "is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.

Never express too much love, affection, care to someone, because it is human tendency to underestimate anything that free of cost.

Here's Ohga: "At Sony, we assume that all products of our competitors have basically the same technology, price, performance, and features. Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead. Don't try to increase what they can do for you. Elevate what you can do for them.

The freedom they have to do great work is more valuable, and harder to match, than a pay raise—and employees' spouses, partners, and families are among ROWE's staunchest advocates.

Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.

We've always taken the position that money is only something you can lose on," Cannon-Brookes told me. "If you don't pay enough, you can lose people. But beyond that, money is not a motivator.

If you have a broken heart, it means you have done something big enough and important enough and valuable enough to have broken your heart.

Ponder that humble toaster. The typical person uses a toaster at most 15 minutes per day. The remaining 1,425 minutes of the day the toaster is on display. In other words, 1 percent of the toaster's time is devoted to utility, while 99 percent is devoted to significance. Why shouldn't it be beautiful, especially when you can buy a good-looking one for less than forty bucks?

largely metaphorical."7 In a complex world, mastery of metaphor—a whole-minded ability that some cognitive scientists have called "imaginative rationality"—has become ever more valuable

Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, a deviation from the steady path to happiness. It is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human. Regret is also valuable. It clarifies. It instructs. Done right, it needn't drag us down; it can lift us up.

Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you

When facts become so widely available and instantly accessible, each one becomes less valuable. What begins to matter more is the ability to place these facts in context and to deliver them with emotional impact.

The value of a life can be measured by one's ability to affect the destiny of one less advantaged. Since death is an absolute certainty for everyone, the important variable is the quality of life one leads between the times of birth and death." BILL STRICKLAND Founder of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, and MacArthur "genius award" winner

Mediocrity is expensive—and

Utility is akin to L-Directed Thinking; significance is akin to R-Directed Thinking. And, as with those two thinking styles, today utility has become widespread, inexpensive, and relatively easy to achieve—which has increased the value of significance.

It's time to rescue humor from its status as mere entertainment and recognize it for what it is—a sophisticated and peculiarly human form of intelligence that can't be replicated by computers and that is becoming increasingly valuable in a high-concept, high-touch world.

The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table.

Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.