Quotes About Value

I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.

I spent time in refugee camps in Southeast Asia, and in the projects of Chicago. I've been to State dinners with Presidents. I met the Queen of England on a beach in Anguilla. No one is any more valuable or important than you are. No one is more important than your family and your friends.

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.