Quotes About Value

Everything. And I don't just mean in business. As humans, we invest not just money. We spend time. We spend effort. There's a reason it's put like that. Life's short, and time is precious and limited. We need to pick and choose where to put it.

Of course the opposite is also true. No one is as good as the best thing.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine," Pa whispers softly.

I've had the chance to do something that's worth my being alive.

When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

The problem, however, is that I have yet to meet anyone, materialist or otherwise, who was able to dispense with value judgements. On the contrary, the literature of materialism is peculiarly marked by its wholesale profusion of denunciations of all sorts. Starting with Marx and Nietzsche, materialists have never been able to refrain from passing continuous moral judgement on all and sundry, which their whole philosophy might be expected to discourage them from doing.

More was lost than mere life and existence.

The world is cheapened when everyone sees it with a marketers eye.

Porque si hemos sido valorizadas únicamente dentro de una función de reproducción, aceptar el goce fuera de la función reproductiva significa inventar una sexualidad femenina diferente

Alles van waarde is weerloos, wordt van aanraakbaarheid rijk.

I don't think music is a commodity. It can be something that you buy in a supermarket and you throw it away! There's a lot of music you can use in this way, but I'm not interested in that music, even if sometimes it's funny to hear and pleasant to hear. I'm far away from that.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

Law firms that thrive in today's market are those whose point of difference is the value they provide to their clients. In other words, it's not about the firm, it's about their customers.

the fact that if we all blow ourselves to smithereens, at least Pepito has existed, and that is good, the fact that it's just plain good he was in the world,

it is labor, and labor only, which makes civilization possible. 'Tis labor that toils, and spins, and weaves, and builds, that another, not it, may enjoy. 'Tis the laborers who dive into the unknown caverns of the sea and compel her to yield up her hidden treasures, which they know not even the value thereof.

Everything that exists has value, is a being of distinction … [H]ence it asserts, maintains itself.

Providence is a privilege of man. It expresses the value of man, in distinction from other natural beings … ; it exempts him from the connection of the universe. Providence is the conviction of man of the infinite value of his existence, - a conviction in which he renounces faith in the reality of external things; it is the idealism of religion.