Quotes About Value

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

OvÅ¡em, je to jasné: chceme-li stanovit skute?nou hodnotu funkce, musíme ur?it její limitu. A je jasné, že limitou v?erejÅ¡ího hloupého "rozplynutí ve vesmíru" je smrt. Protože smrt je vlastnÄ› mé úplné rozplynutí ve vesmíru. Ozna?íme-li tedy lásku L a smrt S, bude L = f(S), tj. láska a smrt…

Parenthood is not some special currency," Iris said. "Being a parent is not a status thing." "Surely they're superior in one way? They've done things we've been unable to do." "What, procreation? The turkeys do it. All those dogs and cats do it. Your bees, too. Fuck and breed.

SOMETIMES YOU HEAR PEOPLE say so-and-so has lived well, and so-and-so has had a dull life. They are missing a key point when they say that. Any experience is experience, any life a life. A day in a cloister can be as dramatic and fatal as a day on a battlefield.

Persimmons are not born soft," "But they are valued for their softness." "Their ripeness.

To kill time - an English phrase that still chills me: time can be killed but only by frivolous matters and purposeless activities. No one thinks of suicide as a courageous endeavor to kill time.

Big deals and climaxes only form a vacuum cleaner of time. It's the small deals and the nothing deals that shatter time into ragges pieces.

In either case, the practical individual freedom to cooperate with others in making things of value was limited by the extent of the capital requirements of production.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

A nickle ain't worth a dime anymore!

He discounted the value of his own efforts, and seemed to feel that anyone would have done the same.

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

The only miracles of any value are the ones you work.

Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that's a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

Svoju patnju, koju prihvatam, moram da prihvatim kao dragocenost. Ne postoji nijedan ispira? zlata koji iskopava samo zlato. Ispira? vadi pesak sa korita reke, naslepo, ne razmišljaju?i šta ?e da izvadi iz vode. On bi voleo da je u pesku i zlato, ali možda ga uopšte ne?e biti, on mora da se pomiri sa time. Niko nema povlasticu da unapred odabere ono što želi.

Do you really hold your life so cheaply? - Yes.

The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any force, such as religion, that treated her beauty and her high rank as things of no value.

The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.

There is nothing in this world of value... nothing worth risking our lives for... except perhaps... what little we can create for ourselves.

Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.