Commodity Quotes - Page 24

• The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

  Phil Cooke

  Inspirational, Attention, Century

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• The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.471

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• Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Vicious, Particular

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.53

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• gossip ... was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.

  P. D. James

  Giving, Gossip, Marketplace

  P. D. James (2010). “A Taste for Death”, p.292, Vintage

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• Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory.   Remember, time is irreplaceable.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inventory, Remember, Stolen

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• How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heaven, Want, Life Is

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• There are the obstacles of your position as an actor, not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity, because the successful actors who've been in the game for a while want those roles. So there's more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.

  Adrien Brody

  Integrity, Hard Work, Successful

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Thinking, Knowing

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• The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Vision, Common

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• In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt. Our merchants and master manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods, both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits; they are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.

  Adam Smith

  Philosophy, Simple, People

  "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations".

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• The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don't count; they don't matter; they're commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Phones, Cells

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• Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.

  Carl Menger

  Money, Independent, Power

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• Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Courage, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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• I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

  Christoph Waltz

  Art, Thinking, Europe

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