Value Quotes

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people won't realise that we actually do produce value.

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.

Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

All lives have an equal value.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe their commitment to the entrepreneur and dedication to building companies of lasting value really set the firm apart.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.