Quotes About Value

He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. Here. I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss.

When we worship something, we are affirming its value to us. We do that with our actions as well as with our hearts. A

Although now that I'm in middle management I'm supposed to call it refactoring the strategic value proposition in real time with agile implementation," or, if I'm being honest, "making it up as I go along.

The only question," Eve mused aloud, "is whether time travel via the dream roads is call by value or call by reference.

The finest studies are like the finest of anything else: They cost big bucks.

But probability triumphs in the end. An important theorem known as the law of large numbers tells us that as the number of independent trials increases, the average of the outcomes will get closer and closer to its expected value.

For now, the key insight is that changing the number of chips on the table does not change the value of what's in the shoebox, which is all anyone cares about at the end of the night.

For as long as there have been creditors and debtors—which is a darn long time—creditors have tried to protect the value of the currency and debtors have sought to devalue it.

We are conditioned by the national parks to link beauty and environmental value, a prejudice that makes as much sense as thinking attractive people form better friendships than plain people.

Eso es muy revelador —la miró, con una expresión pensativa—. Eres demasiado modesta, Cenicienta. Sabes, la gente te toma según la forma en que tú te valoras. Si te escondes en un rincón, piensa que debes ser muy aburrida, así que te ignoran.

I'm beginning to realize that beauty is a fundamental value. The essential ingredient of a deeply satisfying life.

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. There is this complexity which seems to me to be part of the meaning of existence and everything we value.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

ELVIS & MARILYN: The deader they get - the more money they make.

This is one of the negative implications of free. People often don't care as much about things they don't pay for, and as a result they don't think as much about how they consume them. free can encourage gluttony, hoarding, thoughtless consumption, waste, guilt, and greed. We take stuff because it's there, not necessarily because we want it. Charging a price, even a very low price, can encourage much more responsible behavior.

The way to compete with free is to move past the abundance to find the adjacent scarcity.

Free is not a magic bullet. Giving away what you do will not make you rich by itself. You have to think creatively about how to convert the reputation and attention you can get from free into cash.

Commodity information (everybody gets the same version) wants to be free. Customized information (you get something unique and meaningful to you) wants to be expensive.

4. You can make money from free.

7. Sooner or later you will compete with free.

9. free makes other things more valuable.

Your only real job in giving a talk is to have something valuable to say and to say it authentically in your own unique way.

One of the first mistakes budding Makers make when they start to sell their product is not charging enough. It's easy to see why, for all sorts of reasons. They want the product to be popular, and they know the lower the price, the more it will sell. Some may even feel that if the product was created with community volunteer help, it would be unseemly to charge more than it costs. Such thinking may be understandable, but it's wrong.