Values Quotes

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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of… — Samuel Johnson
One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must… — May Sarton
The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as… — May Sarton
If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost. — Dalai Lama
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's… — Orrin Hatch
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
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are… — Bernard Berenson
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
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. — Margaret Mead
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
Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks… — Henry Beston
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
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial… — Alan Greenspan
Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options. — W. Edwards Deming
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

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