Quotes About Value

We want to do something with the time we have, something that will give that time a certain meaning, a certain weight.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Impossible men: idle, illiterate,Self-pitying, dirty, sly,For whose appearance even in City ParksExcuses must be made to casual passers-by.Has God's supply of tolerable husbandsFallen, in fact, so lowOr do I always over-value womanAt the expense of man?Do I?It might be so.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued.

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.

When the customer comes first, the customer will last

Free advice is worth the price.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got.

The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

And so all great music, great prose, everything beautiful must depend upon the sure, free measure with which it is gardened and put into language for the people, for each lovely thing has its intrinsic value and belongs in its own position for the world to study, understand and thrive upon.

Contrary to popular belief, time does not heal, time does not fly, time does not do anything. Time has no consciousness. It does nothing for you. The key to happiness now is what you choose to do with your time right now. Are you, right now, making the most valuable use of your time? This moment is, after all, the time of your life. Your choices are what make each moment.

It also reflects a tendency in our society to focus on negatives. Doctors, for instance, study illness, not health. Business leaders analyse failure, not success. Economists study cost, not value. Philosophers mostly debate original sin, not original blessing.

True happiness is valuable because, for example, it is a sign of authenticity, and it is a way of knowing you are on purpose.

The Church, then, is too much interested in men and too much absorbed in God. Of course she is too much interested and too much absorbed, for she alone knows the value and capacity of both; she who is herself both Divine and Human.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Cultural Imperium' suggesting the idea of cultural hegemony such that what appears to be 'avant garde' and 'radical' is in fact intensely conservative and defined by the forces of economy and commodity trading which have absolutely no bearing on intrinsic value.

an idea is creative when it is new to people who use or evaluate it, and (at least some of them) believe it could be valuable to themselves or others.

we justify all the time, effort, suffering, and years and years that we devote to something by telling ourselves and others that there must be something worthwhile and important about it or we never would have so much of our lives sunk into it.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

Sell cheap and that's what people will think of you. Loss leaders lose. Customers look for price and value and service and quality and convenience. And you'd better give it to them or someone else will.