Quotes About Value

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

Great design is so many things all at the same time. It is emotional, functional, and responsive. It creates an unwritten dialogue, a connection, between itself and those who experience it. It is open to interpretation yet created for a specific purpose. It creates meaning and value.

I am concerned about the erraticness of the dollar. The dollar is up, the dollar is down. We print a lot of dollars. The dollar gets devalued. That is really the concern. If people think the gold price up and down is a reflection of something wrong with gold, no - I say it is something wrong with the dollar.

It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.

There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. That's one of those places you can't go wrong. It can be as simple as updating counters and a backsplash.

For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs.

Buying a house that needs work can be one of the best ways to stretch your budget. Why pay for someone else's upgrade?

Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.

I'm blessed to play football for a living, but the true value of our work comes in how we uplift those in need of support.

It's bizarre how the most powerful, moving things in the world, there's no money. But that's going to be the most uplifting thing in anyone's life. There's not going to be a paycheck.

My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

The thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying, 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.

We saw how a lot of companies charge upwards of $1500 for a basic LSAT course, and we all thought that is simply way too much, even if the instruction was good.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.

Don't waste your most important resource—your life.

A gifted man does not waste his life on women.

A pearl never loses its value, not even when covered with dirt.

Women are pleasured treasures.

Unless it was Cokie, gifts from men weren't free.

Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can wise if you want to but be respected that is essential.'

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.