Quotes About Values

As long as you have some idea of what's happening to you, 'real' or 'unreal' doesn't matter. You have to stand up for what you care about; if you don't, you lose control of who you are.

what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.

I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?

Lo que realmente da forma a nuestra vida es el significado que damos a las cosas. ANTHONY ROBBINS, ORADOR MOTIVACIONAL

Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull

Principles had a nasty way of interfering with results.

It doesn't matter what people thinks of you as long as you know that your heart and head are in the right place.

One effective approach is to determine a range of accuracy that is acceptable and then use a boolean function to determine whether the values are close enough.

Vivir de un modo congruente con nuestros valores es un viaje que no termina nunca; dura toda la vida.

In ACT, values are freely chosen, verbally constructed consequences of ongoing, dynamic, evolving patterns of activity, which establish predominant reinforcers for that activity that are intrinsic in engagement in the valued behavioral pattern itself

Psychological flexibility can be defined as contacting the present moment as a conscious human being, fully and without needless defense—as it is and not as what it says it is—and persisting with or changing a behavior in the service of chosen values.

Psychological flexibility is the ability to feel and think with openness, to attend voluntarily to your experience of the present moment, and to move your life in directions that are important to you, building habits that allow you to live life in accordance with your values and aspirations.

In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.

As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.

Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about.

With any problem, it's important to figure out which incentives will actually work, not just what your moral compass tells you should work.

podría sugerir que la moral representa el modo en que a las personas les gustaría que funcionase el mundo, mientras que la economía representa cómo funciona éste en realidad.

Never, ever think that people will do something just because it is the "right" thing to do.

la moral representa el modo en que a las personas les gustaría que funcionase el mundo, mientras que la economía representa cómo funciona éste en realidad.

But one need not oppose abortion on moral or religious grounds to feel shaken by the notion of a private sadness being converted into a public good.

cuando la pose moral se ve sustituida por una valoración sincera, con frecuencia el resultado es una revelación nueva y sorprendente.

namely, how much kids have learned from their parents, how hard they work at home, and whether the parents have instilled an appetite for education. If these home

But when it comes to solving problems, one of the best ways to start is by putting away your moral compass.

morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work