How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just...

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

I’d sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of...

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Last weekend I went out of my comfort zone to go hang out with people I’d only heard about, and I met one new person who turned out to be a very valuable contact. I...

I don’t think (tech stocks) are cheap. But they are closer to true value.

People must be valued because of what they are rather than who they are.

It is in the seemingly impossible where we find our true value

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark… my value unhangable.

You’ve seen the world, and all you’ve seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You’ve sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all...

It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.

Maine has shown the huge value of using a laptop across all of one’s studies. Maine’s program demonstrates how laptops can serve as a window into the world and a tool with which to think.

Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

The advantage to American is they could buy assets very cheaply, since TWA has very low equity value, and also it would prevent another airline from moving into St. Louis and competing with American if...

This should raise the overall value of the combined assets.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

When you accept your value and have gratitude you are declaring your worthiness of further receivership.

It is due to the scarcity value.

This work is not easy, and it never goes smoothly. Because we are hopelessly committed to both individual and group effectiveness, groups committed to public or civic value are rarely permanent. Instead, groups need to...

Talk is cheap when your words have no value.

Everyone’s bonuses were a little bit better this year, and they’ve seen the value of their assets increase, so if you go to an electronics store now there are a lot more people.

You have the right to create an appealing future for yourself; you also have the right to build up an appalling brand. Whichever, you own the value you create.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture.

I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn’t know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb]...

misplaced” their values.

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Don’t waste your time on people; let them waste on you.

Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.

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 weird way, it’s the opposite. I value them.

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

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.

If you don’t see your own value, don’t expect others to as well.

He can’t value you more than you value yourself.

All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though...

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what...

I think we have gotten good value.

A person who has gone through enough life’s grind can probably and justifiably find the true worth of anything or anyone in his or everyone’s life.

You’re seeing a return to traditional measures of value as investors become more focused on things like (price-to-earnings ratios), interest rates and earnings.

Value will always be on top of everyone’s lists now, right along with safety.

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science....

You may be tall; you may be short. You may be a black; you may be a white. One more thing to keep behind your mind is that you “your purpose is unique”. Anyone who...

My love is expansive. Your love is expensive.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

I have a rating system I apply to all people. Mao Zedong might have a Meow Factor of four, but I like to keep my Meow Factor as close to zero as I can. This...

I’m a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.