Quotes About Value

I did want to share with you one of the greatest lessons I've learned over the years cooking for my kids - there is enormous value in bringing children into the kitchen.

Some say, why will people pay for cinema when they can watch cheaper DVDs at home? But I say, everyone has a kitchen at home, yet there are still many restaurants.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity.

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Labour is not a commodity.

A lot of the arguments about religion going on at the moment spring from a rather inept understanding of religious truth Our notion changed during the early modern period when we became convinced that the only path to any kind of truth was reason. That works beautifully for science but doesn't work so well for the humanities. Religion is really an art form and a struggle to find value and meaning amid the ghastly tragedy of human life.

EMPLOYEES ARE OUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET" (OR ARE THEY?)

Child, there's a sayin' every fishmonger has. When you buy land, you buy stones. When you buy fish, you buy bones.

I can get others to do what you do. They won't be as good, but  .  .  . okay. It could work. But it doesn't matter because no matter how good they are, they can't replace you. They can't because I don't need you only for what you can do. I need you  .  .  . for you.

I hadn't realized how much I'd relied on his scowls or his shrugs or his grudging looks of approval to help me figure something out-until they weren't there anymore. Or how I could talk to some people about a lot of things but only to him about everything. And how unbelievably valuable that was.

You mean you let him talk to you like that and you aren't even getting any Man what a rip-off.

You're right", I told him desperately."I can get others to do what you do. They won't be as good, but...okay. It could work. But it doesn't matter because no matter how good they are, they can't replace you. They can't because I don't need you only for what you can do. I need you...for you.

it is a quote from Mihri Hatun, a lady poet who wrote many centuries ago. 'A talented women is better than a thousand untalented men, and a women of understanding is better than a thousand stupid men.

The country was so vast, of course, that one or a hundred or a thousand men could have very little effect. And how, anyway, could one fault a people bringing schools and churches and all the goods of industry? Still, there was always something about newcomers laying claim that made him uneasy, as though he were being robbed some way, or made to give over something he had never thought to value.

I would value you less if I were not a refugee your presence changes my wilderness to a garden (From the poem To My Children)

The carrots got malformed as the earth was too hard for them, but still they were worthy.

One of the benefits of travelling is that you learn what you truly value when you are home. And little things that you might take for granted are sweeter, softer, larger, and infinitely better for the experience of not having them.

In order to understand something really and truly well, you must know where it came from. There is no other way to appreciate its value.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

the modern university system systematically requires an unending supply of young, vulnerable idealists to work for poverty wages as graduate student teaching assistants (and, of course, adjuncts). The advanced degree these students earn is, as Marc Bousquet has argued, simply a by-product of this systemic exploitation, and not meant to carry value forward as a basis for high-wage employment" (Kelsky).