Value Quotes

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom.

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.