Quotes About Value

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless.

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Every hour of useful work is precious.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.