Quotes About Value

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.

You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when there are people starving? Of course, that's true. But just because you can't, theoretically, defend the arts, or make a sensible argument for their preservation, doesn't mean they're not important.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.

I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.

By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat. They become something to be savored, something special.

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

I don't think that the status of a show, big or small, should affect a person's performance.

The avoidance of explicit ethical judgments leads political scientists to one overriding implicit value judgment - that in favor of the political status quo as it happens to prevail in any given society.

If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow.

Opinions are very easily heard in our media and technology-type of world that we're in. I just try to stay focused on the people that I'm around every day that I work with, that I trust and value.

But a married spouse at whatever income level is almost always going to improve the economy of a household over a lifetime, whether that spouse is adding the proceeds of a minimum-wage job or the inestimable value of being a stay-at-home parent while the other one works.

I value my education, but I cannot put a value on it. I know it has been worth some money to me - I don't think 'The Post' would have hired me if I had lacked a degree - but I probably could have earned about the same if I had stayed in the insurance business, where I worked while going to college at night.

Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious.

There's this idea that when you make a certain amount of money that you should be staying at four-star hotels and taking town cars. And believe me, I will take a town car every day, but there are some things where it's like, 'Is this necessary? Is this important?'

Americans have seen the value of the dollar slowly decline due to the steady erosion of inflation.

I don't understand how it's cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?

Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

I do not believe that people should steal music, but I think that fans need a better alternative, hence why I am such a fan of Apple, where you can simply buy a song for $0.99; it is very easy, it is a value-packed service... and this is a result of the shakeup... something has to happen in the music industry.

I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.