Quotes About Value

it is good that you are alive: your life is good, it is good that you are who you are, and it is good that you do the work you do.

This current state of affairs may prevent otherwise thoughtful people from seeing the value of what has traditionally been regarded as the best of "common sense" about life and of what has been preserved in the wisdom traditions of most cultures—especially in two of the greatest world sources of wisdom about the human self, the Judeo-Christian and the Greek, the biblical and the classical.

keep a right heart we must remember that the face of God shining upon us in gracious approval is the basis of our value.

God has paid an awful price to arrange for human self-determination. He obviously places great value on it. It is, after all, the only way he can get the kind of personal beings he desires for his eternal purposes. And just as we are not to try to manipulate others with impressive language of any kind (Matt. 5:37), so we are not to harass them into rightness and goodness with our condemnings and our "pearls" or holy things.

As creators and consumers they fill the field of pop culture today, which is an economic enterprise and only by accident occasionally has something to do with art. Art objects are now commonly referred to as "product" by those who handle them and only make news when they are sold for absurdly large sums or are stolen.

Do you think the businessman who found the pearl was sweating over its cost? An obviously ridiculous question! What about the one who found the treasure in the field—perhaps crude oil or gold? No. Of course not. The only thing these people were sweating about was whether they would "get the deal." Now that is the soul of the disciple.

In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.

Time has become a precious commodity and the ultimate scarcity for millions of Americans. A 1996 Wall Street Journal survey found 40% of Americans saying that lack of time was a bigger problem for them than lack of money."6

Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

As a scientist I have come to learn that information is only as valuable as its source.

La riqueza es algo común y corriente, la sabiduría en cambio rara.

How I long for more time... but time is a commodity even my vast fortune cannot afford.

Despite for a monumental reputation, the Mona Lisa was a mere thirty-one inches by twenty-one inches -- smaller even than the posters of her sold in the Louvre gift shop.

Tidak ada yang lebih dihargai oleh penulis daripada pujian. Robert Langdon

Unde e mintea, acolo-i si comoara.

Bueno, esa es con frecuencia la cuestión, ¿no? En el mundo del arte clásico, las obras se aprecian en base a la ejecución del artista; es decir, la destreza con la que pinta el lienzo o cincela la piedra. En el arte moderno, sin embargo, la valoración se basa más en la idea que en su ejecución. Por ejemplo, cualquiera puede componer una sinfonía de cuarenta minutos que consista únicamente en un acorde y silencio, pero fue Klein quien tuvo la idea.

People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid.

No one wants to pay for a look at another person's angst.

For a few minutes I stood alone in her chambers, appreciating the light and silence and art. There was a van Gogh on one of the walls, worth more than most planets could pay. It was a painting of the artist's room at Arles. Madness is not a new invention.

There was a van Gogh on one of the walls, worth more than most planets could pay. It was a painting of the artist's room at Arles. Madness is not a new invention.

Mis primeros poemas eran lamentables. Como la mayoría de los malos poetas, yo no me daba cuenta de ello, seguro en mi arrogancia de que el simple acto de crear daba cierto valor a los indignos abortos que alumbraba.

He joined with his peers in sneering at the New Bushido as a code for faggots, but an ancient vein of honor in the young Kassad's soul secretly resonated to the thought of a samurai class whose life and work revolved around duty, self-respect, and the ultimate value of one's word.

It just makes me so goddamn mad," she said, still looking away from Saul. "Yes." "I mean, it's like he didn't even count. He wasn't important. Do you know what I mean?

life and work revolved around duty, self-respect, and the ultimate value of one's word.