Quotes About Value

People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible.

all people, no matter how little they had, if in Paris, they possessed great treasure...Paris itself.

lo cierto es que en cierto modo quiero que me sigan sacando de quicio, pues no me gustaría llegar tan lejos en la búsqueda del nirvana como para perder este espíritu de lucha. Si la iluminación total significa dejar de hacer juicios de valor de cualquier tipo y dejar de esforzarse por cambiar las cosas, entonces no contéis conmigo2.

Buying something ultimately comes down to feeling good about the purchase.

I suppose all the movies I've seen will be worth nothing to me when I die. Wrong. They'll be worth something, believe me. Don't stop going to the movies.

Nothing very expensive, as you can see, though when you're poor anything that isn't free is expensive.

There are no rare texts. Wretched ones, to be sure, and luminous ones, but none of them rare.

sin el agobio del tiempo, pues tiempo era lo que sobraba, que es acaso lo que distingue a una democracia, el tiempo sobrante, la plusvalía de tiempo, tiempo para leer y tiempo para pensar

I who have nothing may have nothing, but I'll always have something that you don't. And that's respect.

Your age is not what walks in first; it's who you are, what you've done, and what you offer.

Replace 'I don't have time' with 'it doesn't matter' and see how that feels.

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is...

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

You never miss the water until the well runs dry.

I don't need to be a hero, Fool. I'd settle for feeling that what I did every day had significance to someone besides myself." "p. 144 Fitz to the Fool

All men value their own secrets far above those of others.

Here we do not believe in wasting time simply for the purpose of impressing others.

He wished his own respect for her was enough to make her see her own worth, and he recognized the selfishness of that wish. He could not be her entire world

Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?

It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man.

There is something about you, Etta. Something in you that cannot be quenched, by hardship or ill treatment. Your soul gleams like silver beneath a patina of hard use. He is right to love you. Any man would love you.

You've many tasks and duties, and I won't claim to know all that you do for our prince. I'm sure that at any moment of the day, you can find some reason to be too busy for this. But a man makes time for what is important in his life.

I believe you each have something to offer the other. But you'll only value it if you discover it for yourselves.

Artists and whores, gold always bought them. An artist was no more than a whore who had been well-paid.