Quotes About Value

That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

You're special somehow. Never forget that. And never forget how much.

In our technology-dominated world, the value of literature is getting harder and harder to maintain, but it must be maintained if we're going to have any humanity left at all.

I don't design down to a price.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

Because the greatest value for this generation is nothing less than individual freedom.

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

What if people come and take all the books away and melt them like they did to the motorcars?' 'Books don't melt.

What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

It is better to live than lie dead. A dead man gathers no goods. Hávamál

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours.

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.

Recognition is the most powerful currency you have, and it costs you nothing

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.

When you worship, you are saying, "This one is worth more." At the same time you are implying, "I am worth less." Worship is the magnification of God and the minimization of self. One of the most succinct expressions of a worshipper's heart in all the New Testament came from John the Baptist: "He must increase, but I must decrease."5

when one finds oneself participating in an endeavor entirely without merit, one withdraws.

In Europe they call geeks 'smart people ' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.

All work has dignity. No job, when done freely, is ignoble.