“My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.” Has BeensFactsValuesStrongInfluenceHugeEnormousGrandmotherVery StrongMy GrandmotherFormidable Author:Anthony Minghella
“The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.” IfsWayDesirePurposeValuesInfluenceYouthConversationSpeakersHonorableEloquenceCountrymenAmerican Youth Author:George Frisbie Hoar
“Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.” MayTwoValuesCultureResultsPracticeInfluenceExampleHabitExercisePatternsDesirableUndesirableTwo Cultures Author:Shelley E. Taylor
“In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.” ValuesOrderOpportunityCommonNumbersGroupsInfluenceMastersMembersSlaveVarietyEducateUndertakingsLarge Numbers Author:John Dewey
“Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.” MomentsValuesLostViewsForeverInfluenceJudgingLabourArticlesCommerceUtilityBygones Author:William Stanley Jevons
“The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.” WorldGivingRealValuesLanguageProcessFeminismInfluenceEmpoweringReal WorkValue Systems Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“The world is now unipolar and contains only one superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.” WorldImportantStatesPoliticalValuesGivenInterestAbilityUnitedCommonUnited StatesShareInfluenceEconomicSecurityPolicyExerciseUniqueObjectivesCanadaForeign PolicyContinentsMaintainingSuperpower Author:Stephen Harper
“Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists, anarcho-primitivists, and so forth (The "GA Movement") have fallen under such heavy influence from the left that their rebellion against civilization has to great extent been neutralized. Instead of rebelling against the values of civilization, they have adopted many civilized values themselves and have constructed an imaginary picture of primitive societies that embodies these civilized values.” RealValuesLeftTechnologyInfluenceMovementCivilizationGreenHeavyFallenRebellionCivilizedImaginaryPrimitiveAdoptedAnarchist Author:Theodore Kaczynski
“The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.” CountryAmericaPoliticalValuesNamesPartyPracticeInfluenceRepublicanShameOur CountryDivisionRepublican PartyTacticsSlanderReligion And Politics Author:John McCain
“The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.” MenGivingMindArtLawJoyValuesGrowthStudyInfluenceHigherArt IsSightCaughtIntellectEvery ManSensesObservationHintsScrapRefining Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.” ShouldHumansMeanEndsValuesUnderstandingEducationInfluenceConditionsSubjectsStudentsProsperityPrioritiesUselessHuman ConditionIrrelevantAcquisitionValue Of EducationUseless Knowledge Author:Roger Scruton
“The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. It will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.” PeopleWorldMeanPersonsValuesWatchesDoubtInfluenceCitizensBehaviorDetailsTechniqueObjectivesTraditionalPermanentNo DoubtElitesFulfillingNwoTraditional Values Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.” IfsWorldLittlesI CanBigsHappensValuesInfluenceWorstQuittingCoreWorst ThingsSlidesCore ValuesConcluding Author:Steve Jobs
“I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. What he hungers for is definitely going to be affected by what he got or didn't get in those years when he was forming his psyche and his values. So I think villains are made.” ThinkingYearsBelieveMadeValuesBornInfluenceSkillsHungerAffectedVillain Author:Ron Perlman
“Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.” MomentsValuesCommunityInfluenceOnlineHierarchyAdding Value Author:Gary Hamel
“The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences our consumer tastes and our preference for high-paying jobs, but it also alters our capacity to pray, the nature of our prayers, and the ways in which religious tutelage instructs our values.” ThinkingWayWellsJobsValuesReligiousPrayerInfluenceDangerPrayingTasteCapacityConsumersMaterialismConsumerismPreferenceOur PrayersOverconsumptionTutelage Author:Robert Wuthnow
“Many people don’t realize the extent to which stories influence our behavior and even shape our culture. Think about how Bible stories teach the fundamentals of religion and rules of conduct. Think of the fables and parables that molded your values. Think of how stories about your national, cultural or family history have shaped your attitudes about yourself and others.” PeopleThinkingStoriesValuesCultureRealizingAttitudeTeachInfluenceShapesBehaviorFundamentalsAbout YourselfFablesParablesFamily HistoryBible Stories Author:Lawrence Shapiro
“Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values” ShowsValuesInfluenceTheoryFundamentalsAnalysisStock Price Book:The Alchemy of Finance Source: The Alchemy of Finance
“We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.” WorldChildrenFactsHomeValuesDarkForeverInfluenceTelevisionOur ChildrenProtectionVulnerableSparesImmature Author:Polly Berrien Berends
“We all have our own paths. That's the important thing of this movie. God's waiting there for everybody. Be true to who you are and true to your values - not to media, not to the influence of friends necessarily or people even that you admire. Be true to your heart and you'll find that path.” PeopleHeartImportantValuesWaitingPathInfluenceMediaImportant ThingsWho You AreAdmireBeing TrueBe True To Who You Are Author:Corbin Bernsen
“Leadership is not about executive position or title. It is about connection and influence. At its highest, leadership is all about adding value to the world and blessing lives through the work you do.” WorldValuesInfluencePositionBlessingHighestConnectionsTitlesExecutivesAdding Value Author:Robin Sharma
“To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.” WayAbleValuesTermInfluenceConcerned Author:Bill Crawford
“It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods.” PeopleImportantValuesDecisionResponsibilityCareersInfluenceUnbelievableLivelihoodShareholdersShareholder Value Author:Andrea Jung
“Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of GDP statistics under various scenarios or some measures of global influence.” ValuesInterestAnswersInfluenceDependsVariousStatisticsScenariosGdp Author:Dale Jamieson
“If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?” IfsWorldGivingDreamRealityValuesSleepQualityInfluenceActivityAbsenceAccessSuperiorsAwakeExposedInferiorsDiminishOur DreamsBeneficialOutside World Author:Erich Fromm
“If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines. Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate. In other words, you hold onto your values, but you do it much more inclusively, humbly and in an open ended way. Suffering takes you there.” IfsWorldWayYearsSufferingValuesPovertyTeachKnowingOur LivesInfluenceMiddleEventsAbuseLive ByTransitionCompassionateMainstreamWithout YouFamineHeadlinesBlocked Author:Richard Rohr