Values Quotes - Page 33

• We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Exercise, Self, Wind

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.143, Barbour Publishing

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• Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

  Bill Watterson

  Creating, Achievement, Soul

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.

  Tony Meloto

  Want, Lasts, Greater

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• I'm quite encouraged by the finding that voters do value checks and balances and accountability. I think it's very heartening. And it has been interpreted to mean that Singaporeans do find that at the system level the institutions have to function with some sort of balance regardless of whether the policies are good or bad in that sense.

  Sylvia Lim

  Mean, Thinking, Accountability

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• The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Lying, Unique, Answers

  Hans-Georg Gadamer, Robert Bernasconi (1986). “The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

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• Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish.

  Henry Jenner

  Simple, Purpose, Answers

  Henry Jenner (2012). “A Handbook of the Cornish Language: Chiefly in Its Latest Stages, with Some Account of Its History and Literature”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• Love has no value in the absence of truth.

  C. J. Anderson

  Absence

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• The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

  T. J. Clark

  Art, Half, Painting

  T. J. Clark (2015). “The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• Cross-cultural reality testing forces people to examine both their own and others' understandings of reality. Most people simply assume that the
  way they look at things is the way things really are, and judge other cultures' views of reality before understanding them. These judgments are
  based on ethnocentrism, which closes the door to further understanding and communication. Furthermore, ethnocentric judgments keep missionaries from examining their own beliefs and values to determine which of them are based on biblical foundations and which on their cultural beliefs.

  Paul G

  Communication, Biblical, Reality

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• How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Zero, Children, Kids

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• It's not nuclear physics. You always remember that. But if you write about sports long enough, you're constantly coming back to the point that something buoys people; something makes you feel better for having been there. Something of value is at work there...Something is hallowed here. I think that something is excellence.

  Tom Callahan

  Sports, Writing, Feel Better

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• Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not, that you're doing something of value when you're just using up paper, that you're a writer when in fact you're just going through the motions of one. Look at me! I have blank paper in front of me-and now I'm filling it, with words!

  Robert Masello

  Writing, Games, Waiting

  Robert Masello (2005). “Robert's Rules of Writing”, p.12, Writer's Digest Books

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• Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

  Nancy Hale

  People, Giving, Pay

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• To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.

  Anne F. Beiler

  Order, Ideas, People

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• What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.

  Barry Moltz

  Simple, Purple, Creating

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• By nature, an auction is kind of a wholesale beast anyway. You're buying second hand goods, even with the historical, antique or aesthetic value. You look to get the wholesale price and you hope for retail spikes periodically when you get two or three people in the audience that want the same thing.

  Paul Brown

  Hands, Two, People

  Source: www.missbargainhuntress.com

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• Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the same, but third-world countries are not newsworthy to mainstream media. The irony is stunning that a Communist nation would understand that preserving the value of men and women marrying and producing children makes for demographic survival, while many American Christian leaders cower in the shadows, in fear of activist homosexuals and their leftist supporters. I say 'cheers' to the Russians on this one. That nation will probably outlive America.

  Sylvia Thompson

  Christian, Country, Cheer

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• Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Unique, Rivers, Broken

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• I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. Its helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

  Lars Peter Hansen

  Thinking, Understanding, Roles

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• I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists. I believed, and continue to believe, that the arguments against widely available cryptography, while certainly advanced by people of good will, did not hold up against the cold light of reason and were inconsistent with the most basic American values.

  Matt Blaze

  Believe, Light, Security And Freedom

  "Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws" by Declan Mccullagh, www.wired.com. September 13, 2001.

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• Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

  Roelof Botha

  Powerful, Keys, Quality

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• I'm like a small farmer who interacts with people who consume what I make and tend my little patch of ground, and the Spotifys of the world, which are like McDonald's, are going to make people less aware of how the thing gets made and of its value.

  David Bazan

  Mcdonalds, People, World

  "Station to Station: The Past, Present, and Future of Streaming Music". Interview with Eric Harvey, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2014.

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• Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Numbers, Promotion, Function

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• Too Blue is a fantastic band with great singing, great picking and large dollops of creativity. The album features beautifully clean production values and the sound is always fresh. I was impressed. I think you will be too.

  Tony Trischka

  Creativity, Thinking, Blue

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• Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It's not the only thing that defines you.

  Molly Tarlov

  Body, Define You, Knows

  "Awkward's Molly Tarlov Talks Body Peace". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. July 29, 2011.

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