Value Quotes

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To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no… — Georges Braque
Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a… — Mark Z. Danielewski
The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual rights for men… — Colin Powell
When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and… — Twyla Tharp
The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course… — Henri Matisse
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs… — Simone Weil
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. — William Carlos Williams
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those… — William Carlos Williams
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and… — Walter Pater
Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values"… — Thomas Sowell
Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result… — Thomas Sowell
There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values.… — Ayn Rand
I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love… — Roger Ebert
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above… — Freya Stark
If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As… — Ernest Gaines
Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value… — John C. Maxwell
The $50 note trick - ask who wants it even after stomping on it - moral is, no matter what we do to it it… — John C. Maxwell
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given… — Thomas Hobbes

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