Value Quotes

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Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they… — Ludwig von Mises
[A personÂ’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. — David Hume
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports. — Omar N. Bradley
Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and… — Joshua Reynolds
By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the… — Joshua Reynolds
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value. — Alain de Botton
I value those artists who embody the expression of their life. — Wassily Kandinsky
I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we… — Rachel Naomi Remen
I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I… — Daniel Dennett
Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts. — Fernand Leger
Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire. — John Singer Sargent
The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome. — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
In preparing a study or a picture, it seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values... and to continue… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved… — Clement Greenberg
Work out what is truly important to you. Research shows people with consistently high happiness scores prioritise their life according to the things they value.… — Robert Holden
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention. — Michael J. Gelb
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the… — Tim Ferriss
Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically… — Wassily Kandinsky

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