Quotes About Values

Your role is not to make your child happy every moment of the day regardless of the personal cost, but to raise her to be a thoughtful, kind, productive citizen of the world. Some people would beg to differ, but it's not a choice to discipline or not. Your child needs discipline, just like she needs food and water.

When he's very small, forget about minor misbehavior and focus on the big stuff.

I touch the fuzzy letter I. The pins he's earned for varsity and captain. This is what we care about. How many pins we have. We want to be MVPs. The most valuable of all. What's so wrong with that? It's stupid, Beth would say. That's what's wrong with it.

And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it.

It's nonsense for it to be illegal," Patty said briskly. "It may be immoral and unclean because it's outside marriage, but it shouldn't be illegal. That's nonsense.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

Peace might sell, but who's buying?

and you know the first thing Dylan did when they started talking about how much money he could make? He went over in a corner by himself, and started scribbling down a list of who his friends were, because if he was gonna be rich, he'd have to know.

If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?

October is a time to take stock of our deepest held beliefs.

We will think deeply about our values, our relationships, our motivation and our mind-habits. We will take responsibility for living our lives with awareness and love.

Life is not about age, about the length of years we manage to eke out of it. It is about aging, about living into the values offered in every stage of life. As E. M. Forster wrote, "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Conceptual knowledge is so valued in our world. Yet in many cultures wisdom is equated not with knowledge but with an open heart. And

You want the freedom to sleep around. I'm not willing to give you that. I want more. Sounds like we have a fundamental difference of opinion here, and I'm not going to try and change you. But I'll tell you one thing, Ruger- I deserve to be with someone who gives a shit about me, as a person. Someone who values me enough not to fuck other women. I'd rather be alone the rest of my life than settle for what you're offering. Consider yourself a hell of a booty call, but that's it. We clear?

Yeah, this good-guy bullshit wasn't his gig at all.

One reason people might prize socially constructed reinforcement over intrinsic reinforcement is sociocultural programming.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

It didn't fit her ideas of who was bad, and who was good, and what was a happy ending, and what wasn't.

What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.

what mattered was still there. That was what they all felt, what surprised them all. What mattered couldn't be shaken.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

The past tense is forensic. It's all about blame. The present tense is demonstrative. It's all about values.

The past tense is forensic. It's all about blame. The present tense is demonstrative. It's all about values." I put on his thick German accent to make her laugh. "'But the future tense—that's where the real magic happens. The future tense is deliberative.