Quotes About Value

For what else is tragedy than the perturbations ([Greek: pathae]) of men who value externals exhibited in this kind of poetry?

For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?

What is my position in society?" The one best suited to your talents, which you can hold with honor. Each person has a vital role in society; you are important right where you are. But if you lose your honor in striving for greater (perceived) significance, you become useless.

We get angry because we put too high a premium on things that they can steal. Don't attach such value to your clothes, and you won't get angry with the thief who takes them.

Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God's sake, don't sell it cheap.

For what else are tragedies but the ordeals of people who have come to value externals, tricked out in tragic verse?

What are you going to get when you trade your freedom away? Check to see what your proud new possessions will be worth.

If God had created colours, but not the faculty of vision, colours would have been of little use. [4] Or if God had created vision, but not made sure that objects could be seen, vision would have been worthless. [5] And even if he had made them both, but not created light – [6] then neither would have been of any value. So who contrived this universal accommodation of things to one another? Who fitted the sword to the scabbard and the scabbard to the sword? No one?

I can only suppose that you weigh all those negatives against the worth of the show, and choose, in the end, to be patient and put up with it all.

Incerc sa le explic parintilor mei ca viata e un dar buclucas. La inceput ai tendinta sa-l supraestimezi crezand ca viata pe care ai primit-o este vesnica. Apoi, dimpotriva, il subestimezi, gasind ca-i o porcarie, scurta de nu-ntelegi nimic din ea si pe care uneori ti-ar veni s-o arunci de sa nu se vada. Abia catre sfarsit pricepi ca nu-i vorba de niciun dar, ci de un simplu imprumut. Pe care trebuie sa incerci sa-l meriti.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

you are unimportant to the important!

A man won't buy the cow when he can get the milk for free" phrase my momma used to say has popped into my head one, maybe two million times

Publicly traded corporations, including Facebook, are legally required to maximize shareholder value, and while some CEOs define value expansively, most focus on the bottom line.

To me, this passage is essentially the Chinese equivalent of the Socratic claim that the unexamined life is not worth living. It has exactly the same rhetorical assertiveness and moral severity: the unexamined life is not just less good; it's useless.

There is a critical difference (Ryan observes) between saying, "I'm giving you this reward because I recognize the value of your work", and "You're getting this reward because you've lived up to my standards." The first does not demotivate; the second does.

Tools that look glossy but shatter under stress are not good long-term value. Unix

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

In computer hardware, where freedom reigns for both suppliers and consumers alike on a global scale, the industry generates the fastest innovation in product and customer value the world has ever seen.

La quantité ne fait pas la vérité.

le prime cose che Hélène percepiva nella gente erano la mediocrità, la meschinità, la vigliaccheria, la gelosia, l'insicurezza, la paura; forse perché quei sentimenti erano presenti in lei, li individuava subito negli altri. Antoine invece era portato ad attribuire al prossimo intenzioni nobili, motivazioni di valore, ideali, come se non avesse mai sollevato il coperchio di un'anima per scoprire fino a che punto puzzava e brulicava di vermi.

Ho cercato di spiegare ai miei genitori che la vita è uno strano regalo. All'inizio lo si sopravvaluta, questo regalo: si crede di aver ricevuto la vita eterna. Dopo lo si sottovaluta, lo si trova scadente, troppo corto, si sarebbe quasi pronti a gettarlo. Infine ci si rende conto che non era un regalo, ma solo un prestito. Allora si cerca di meritarlo.

Am încercat s? le explic p?rinÈ›ilor mei ce-i viaÈ›a, un cadou foarte tare. La început, supraestim?m cadoul asta: credem c-am primit via?? veÈ™nic?. De aceea îl subestim?m, ni se pare urât, prea scurt, mai c-am fi gata s?-l arunc?m. În sfârÈ™it, ne d?m seama c? n-am primit un cadou, ci un împrumut.

Tentei explicar aos meus pais que a vida é um presente engraçado. Ao principio sobrestimamos este presente: acreditamos ter recebido a vida eterna. Mais tarde, subestimamo-lo, achamos que é uma porcaria, muito curta, ficamos quase tentados a deitá-la fora. Por fim, percebemos que não era um presente, era apenas um empréstimo. E então esforçamo-nos por merecê-lo.