Quotes About Value

As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.

I hope maybe 'The Returned,' in some small way, can contribute to the argument of the poignancy of human life and make people not take for granted things.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won.

I take pride in a lot of things people take for granted, so when opportunities come my way, I just cherish them and try to make the most of them.

I never had a huge circle of friends, so I really just tried to cherish and not take for granted the close friends I did have, who were really supportive and understanding.

A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

Customers want to buy something which is not expensive because of a label but which is costly because of the time taken to produce it.

I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted.

Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.

Just equating my price to one hit song is taking credit away from my lifetime's work.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

I don't care what business it is. I have the greatest respect in the world for that guy that can take an engine apart of a car and put it back together, or the house painter that can paint a perfect line, or the cameraman who can shoot the best shot. We're all talented in our own ways - just some of us make more money than others. That's all.

For a long time, I didn't have a balance in terms of my worth and my market value; I was just a very talented person who hadn't done any work that truly demonstrated my talent.

I wanted to find a way to intelligently argue that we should be valuing our own skills and talents instead of valuing the number of people we can get to look at us.

I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.

I know what I'm worth, and I don't feel I should be talked about as currency for someone else.

A man who is available for lunch, has no wife, is interested in everything, and talks well is socially invaluable.

I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

People who buy your product or use your service don't care how tall or short you are, or what gender you are, or your age. It is irrelevant. That is not the basis on which your product is judged.

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.