Value Quotes - Page 15

Every man whose tastes have been allowed to develop in wrong directions, or in whom the best tastes have failed of higher perfection, loses thereby from the inner joy and outer value of his whole life. Every good taste is a source and guarantee of happy healthy hours and days, and thus of the enrichment and elevation of life. A reasonable capacity to appreciate music and art quite suffices to enrich life and exercise a wholesome influence upon character. The taste for good reading is inseparable from a taste for good thinking.

The world is sitting on a gold mine but knows it not.

When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, ‘It’s all in Plato’ — meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afte

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

Do not live for emptiness, do not waste your evaporating life pursuing the vanities of life.

If you invest your life into yourself, you are not pouring your life out somewhere, to some job or for some salary, you are re-investing it into yourself. You are multiplying the quality of your life.

A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust;Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasureA life, in recollection, truly possessed.

Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...

Take hold of your passing time and convert it into living your dreams. Only then can you truly fulfill the great destiny that you were called to fulfill.

Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.

Value is what you trade to get money. The more valuable you are the more money you attract.

You hold within you a system of values and beliefs

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

Because of the value placed on individual materialistic success in our society, we are surrounded by people primarily interested in getting something from others. Their attitudes are characterised by selfishness and a lack of empathy for others.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in is a revolutionary transformation of society, and that means an overthrow of the capitalist value-form, the construction of an alternative value-structure, an alternative value-system that does not have the specific character of that achieved under capitalism. I cannot overemphasize this point, because the value theory in Marx is frequently interpreted as a universal norm with which we should comply. I have lost count of the number of times I have heard people complain that the problem with Marx is that he believes the only valid notion of value derives from labor inputs. It is not that at all; it is a historical social product. The problem, therefore, for socialist, communist, revolutionary, anarchist or whatever, is to find an alternative value-form that will work in terms of the social reproduction of society in a different image. By introducing the concept of fetishism, Marx shows how the naturalized value of classical political economy dictates a norm; we foreclose on revolutionary possibilities if we blindly follow that norm and replicate commodity fetishism. Our task is to question it.

You are only great to the degree you impacted others with your life.

The world gives a way to the man who knows where he is going.

When great men die in the race of life, they continue to live because the world can still benefit from their products.

The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time.

Solitude sets you free from the rat race of life.

The question most people do not ask themselves is what they could do with their time to make it productive.

The only thing you can do with the dreams when you realize it’s already morning is to regret wasting your life while you had all the time.

Whatever it is you have been called to do, if you will invest time into perfecting it, you will soon be reckoned among the great in your society.

Since life is in time, since life is in seconds, minutes and hours; that means to waste time is to waste life. To lose time is to lose a life. So don’t waste time!

Do not underrate yourself trying to be somebody else.

The secret of all the great men and women in history is that they converted their time into tangible products.

Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

The best way to convert time is to find out your calling, find out your divine gifting and convert your time into developing your gift and your calling.

When it comes to greatness, God doesn’t choose for man.

Since your life evaporates quickly, it is wisdom to learn how to number your days. Not just to number your days but to make each passing day productive.

For you to be great, you must become conscious of what you are doing per time.

The greatest innovators and history makers of our world were not great because of the formal school system but because of self-development through the proper investment and conversation of time.

Never under-estimate the value of an idea

hold value; not price, carry moral; not pride. be of compassion; not selfishness,humble in your approach to live and loving with your gift to share.

Your life is about you and your God alone.

To waste one hour is a proof that you lack understanding of life.

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]

The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.

Seduced by the spectacular theoretical and practical successes of the objective sciences into thinking that the methods and criteria of those sciences were the only means to truth, philosophers sought to apply those same methods and criteria to questions relating to the meaning of life and the values that give meaning to life. Philosophy, especially the Analytical species prevalent in the English-speaking world, was broken up into specialized disciplines and fragmented into particular problems, all swayed and impregnated by scientism, reductionism, and relativism. All questions of meaning and value were consigned to the rubbish heap of 'metaphysical nonsense'.

Never waste time for someone who doesn’t bother to spend time with you, but with someone who will say, time is wasted if I’m not with you.

What I value is the naked contact of a mind.

It is the conversion of time that produces results and products.

If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.

Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your goal setting

The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was—after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain.

You must realize that whenever you waste a second you are wasting life. If you waste a minute, you have wasted life and if you waste an hour, you have wasted life.

Time is meant to be converted into products.

Measure your life by the product and value you produce daily

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve already done it. It’s called a nickel.

The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media.

The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclusively with objective existents, cannot give answers to questions about meanings and values. Only ideas engendered by the mind and to be found nowhere but in the mind (Socrates), only the pure transcendental forms supplied by reason (Kant), can secure the ideals and values and put us in touch with the realities that constitute our moral and spiritual life. Twenty-four centuries after Socrates, two centuries after Kant, we badly need to re-learn the lesson.

There is no ending to the number of products you can produce with your time if well invested.

When you network you develop a list of resources that you can share with others. This increases your value to those prospects and clients you deal with.

Solitude always gives birth to a product.

Invest your time and buy greatness with it.

Solitude is a greater treasure than money.

Convert your time into fulfilling your purpose.