Values Quotes - Page 33

• But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who just helped me understand my own experience a little bit better." And I think that's still got enormous value.

  Edward Norton

  Real, Thinking, People

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.

  Bill Bailey

  Beautiful, Guitar, Vintage

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I do a fair bit for children's charities. The big ones I support in Liverpool are Zoe's Place Baby Hospice, and Claire House Children's Hospice. I donate money and time but the time is what they value the most. If my inclusion at any event they're doing, helps them to raise more money, then of course I'll be there.

  Robbie Fowler

  Baby, Children, House

  "How Robbie Fowler became one of the richest footballers ever - but not by playing". Interview with Donna Ferguson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 18, 2015.

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• I'm in the business of value judgments .

  Tucker Carlson

  Judgment

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• Travel's the great educator, especially for the girls. You can't put a value on it.

  Laird Hamilton

  Girl, Educator

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 08, 2014.

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• Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Mean, Thinking, Add

  "Interview: Guy Kawasaki on Reciprocity, Influencers, Ecosystems and the Art of Enchantment". Interview with Ian Greenleigh, www.business2community.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I think in the Western world we have gotten overly identified with doing, and we've kind of forgotten about the art of being. And we don't see value in it; we think that if you're not doing something all of the time, being very active and producing something, then you're sort of wasting your time.

  Shakti Gawain

  Art, Thinking, World

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.

  Shakti Gawain

  Goal, Focus, Needs

  "An Interview with Shakti Gawain about Transformation, Locally and Globally". Lotus Guide Interview, www.lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I value my correspondence with writers...I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him - he is someone I really like. I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That's enough for me.

  Alan Lightman

  New York, Lunch, Enough

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.

  Walter Mosley

  People, Important, Generations

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

  Beatrix of the Netherlands

  Responsibility, Fighting, Thinking

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• Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.

  Francis Quarles

  Neighbor, Equal

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• People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?

  Zhuangzi

  Order, People, Misguided

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• The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Uplifting, Sadness, Joy

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• The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Philosophical, Giving, Mind

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• There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Ignorant, Suits, Purpose

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• Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

  John Templeton

  Share, Share Price

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• Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Effectiveness, Psychological, Has Beens

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.35, A&C Black

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• The value of a good idea is in using it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Good Ideas

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• The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold

  Martin Truex Jr.

  Years, Gold, Currency

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• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Spontaneous

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 115 (May 1781)

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• We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely chosen, and too often we end up expected to live lives designed by others.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Live Life, Names, Culture

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• It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social committments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical.

  Alan Watts

  Weed, Taken, Numbers

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• For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

  Ashley Montagu

  Love Is, Survival, Behavior

  Ashley Montagu (1970). “The Direction of Human Development”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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• Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Years, Keys

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