Quotes About Values

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

By the time the child has reached the age of seven or so, his development has become completely intertwined with the values and goals of the culture. Nearly all learning will take place in one or another cultural context; aids to his thinking will reside in many other human beings as well as in a multitude of cultural artifacts. Far from being restricted to the individual's skull, cognition and intelligence become distributed across the landscape.

For himself, he wanted to impose his values on no one. He wasn't even sure he knew what his values were.

Sporcati le mani. Ascolta e comunica con trasparenza. Racconta la tua storia e non lasciare che siano gli altri a definirti. Trai ispirazione da chi ha esperienze reali da raccontarti. Lega le loro storie ai tuoi valori. Fai scelte dure: è l'azione quella che conta. Cerca la verità e le lezioni in ogni errore. Sii responsabile per quello che vedi, ascolti e fai.

Our values were human values. Ethics, integrity, sharing, support, teamwork, caring, respect, and loyalty were all ideals I included in that first mission statement. I also wanted to instill a sense of ambitious camaraderie: "We will set aggressive goals and drive ourselves to achieve them," the mission statement said. "It's an adventure, and we're in it together.

Any company, when faced with adversity, would be tempted to go forward with an idea that promises to quickly erase pain. But in business as in life, people have to stay true to their guiding principles.

How leaders embody the values they espouse sets a tone, an expectation, that guides their employees' behaviors.

people became not just more cost conscious, but also more environmentally aware, health minded, and ethically driven.

Even though Coach Brantford was a young guy, he was 24 years old, he had an old school mentality. He probably got that from his dad.

Despite all the positive psychological attributes of hatred we have outlined, hatred destroys finally the core of the life of the hater. While it lasts, burning in white heat, its effect seems positive and dynamic. But at last it turns to ash, for it guarantees a final isolation from one's fellows. It blinds the individual to all values of worth, even as they apply to himself and to his fellows. Hatred bears deadly and bitter fruit. It is blind and nondiscriminating.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Fin da quando ero piccola, - continuò lei gridando come prima, - mio padre mi diceva che il sangue ci viene dagli antenati. Per vivere uno può vendere frittelle, vendersi la casa, la terra... ma in nessun caso può vendere il sangue. Può persino vendere il proprio corpo, ma non il sangue. Vendendo il corpo, vende se stesso. Ma se vende il sangue, vende i suoi avi. Xu Sanguan, tu hai venduto i tuoi antenati!

But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

All the hipsters with cars, clothes, and money had rejected the family relationship that I valued so highly.

Life is more than meat, and it is also more than theory.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

You don't have to be rich to leave a positive legacy; you don't have to be intelligent, famous, powerful or even particularly well organised, let alone happy. You need only to treat people with kindness, compassion and respect, knowing they will have been enriched by their encounters with you.

How we respond in the face of a challenge tells us more about who we really are than all the pious rhetoric about our alleged attitudes, values or aspirations. [p37]

Timothy's eyes followed the straight back, the high shoulders, and the crisp white hair out of the door and out of his life -- a man, so he was to write years later, the like of whom he was never to met again, "because he was the only man I ever knew who could use words like honour, duty, and responsibility without making me feel like throwing up."