Quotes About Value

All technical professionals have an incentive to make themselves look more complicated than they are so that they can justify the high fees their members charge them for their services.

Even in the richer countries, what happens at work can make people fulfilled, bored, valued or stressed. At the deepest level work shapes who we are.

The view that the world has now entered a new era of the 'knowledge economy', in which making things does not confer much value, is based upon a fundamental misreading of history. We have always lived in a knowledge economy.

sense of inner peace and a feeling of self-worth.

This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy.

Aber wenn man unter Einsatz seines Lebens für etwas gekämpft hat, kann man es einfach nicht richtig genießen.

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

We would not give it thee for all the gold in the world.

History has a way of doing that. People appreciate it more the longer it lasts.

We were losers. We were baseball players. [Baseball executives] were businessmen. When you went into talk about a contract, they always had the upper hand. No matter if you hit 350 or 250, you were going to get what they wanted you to have.

a mon's real wealth isnae measured in lands, coin, or fighting men, but in the giving and receiving of a true and lasting love.

It was her considered opinion that by sending his men to collect her like a cow he wished purchased, her husband was showing her very little in the way of care and concern. Eva supposed this meant she could expect to be considered of little more value at MacAdie than she had been at Caxton. Had it been so much to hope that she might have gained a husband who valued her at least a little? It seemed Connall MacAdie wasn't likely to. "M'lady?

Not every human culture places a particular value on virginity, and not every culture that does value it values it the same way or to the same degree. Indeed, a given culture's treatment of virginity can change over time.

Du hast deine Furcht überwunden. Das ist weitaus mehr wert, als keine Furcht zu haben.

Jeder Mensch wird gebraucht, nur merkt das leider nicht jeder.

There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn't do it--he knew better how to use his money than that.

Now I shall be of some use in the world, as every one ought to be; it is the only way to be happy.

She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

E che cosa ce ne faremo della ricchezza? La posso mangiare? Dormirò meglio quando sarò ricco? Non andrò forse più in fabbrica, e che cosa farò tutto il giorno? No, Borkhausen, io non voglio diventare ricco e in questo modo, poi, certamente no. Una simile ricchezza non vale neanche un morto.

Nothing has any value but money. Money. But in point of fact money has no value; the greatest possible enjoyment has to be squeezed out of it moment by moment. Why save oneself up for tomorrow? Who knows where the dollar will stand, who knows whether we shall be still alive tomorrow?

Todo termina y, ¿qué importa que termine un poco antes o un poco después puesto que de todos modos termina? Todo lo que termina es breve. ¿Y acaso será un mal el que la vida sea breve? No, porque la brevedad es la que la hace preciosa.

he begins with the assumption that there is, in the final analysis, one single question for human thought at every time and in every place: whether, and tinder what conditions, the world can be affirmed in all its finitude. As is evident here, the value that von Balthasar attaches to the work of a thinker is ultimately determined by his answer to this question.16

the Church and her exegesis of revelation progress through the ever-changing periods of world history. New aspects emerge, while others wane; efforts are made to compensate for one-sided emphases, but not rarely they are simply replaced with the opposite extremes. Today too, then, it is a duty to restate the principles in a new and timely way—while being as measured as possible—and in so doing to retrieve what is of permanent value.