“Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.” LittlesStatesAmericaGuyValuesFightingLevelsUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpGrowingAreasDiscriminationValleysFrameworkCountyPoorestColorado Author:Ken Salazar
“When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.” IfsThinkingDoeMatterValuesLevelsPathRegretIntegrityLimitsHighestCommitmentNo Matter WhatFollowingExcuseResistanceFrustrationJustifyMediocrityAlignmentFollow ThroughPath Of Least ResistanceThinking Differently Author:Hal Elrod
“Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.” PeopleSelfSuccessValuesJusticeLevelsCreativityGoodnessAppreciateSimplicityFulfillmentUniquenessWholenessHigh LevelSelf SufficiencySufficiencySelf Fulfillment Author:Abraham Maslow
“Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.” PeopleBelieveReasonFacesValuesSoundLevelsNiceGuaranteesCynicalCynicismFooledCynicDeviousFace Value Author:David Hyde Pierce
“COMMITMENT is the first step to every good thing I know, and the only step that matters when it comes to achievement. It inspires and attracts people, shows them you have conviction and goals, that you are focused and determined. And the commitment that is based on values will endure. Any time you make choices based on solid life values, you are in a better position to sustain your level of commitment, because you don't have to continually re-evaluate its importance.” PeopleKnowsFirstsMatterShowsValuesChoicesGoalLevelsStepsPositionInspireAchievementCommitmentImportanceGood ThingsEndureVery GoodConvictionDeterminedFocusedFirst StepsEvaluate Author:John C. Maxwell
“Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.” FeelsStatesProblemValuesSocialLevelsUnitedCitiesUnited StatesEconomyCrimeExampleViolentEvidentAdmiringInner CityAmerican EconomyViolent CrimesSocial Values Author:Paul Ormerod
“The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a work of art which possesses a lasting cultural value. The method leading to universal form is based upon calculations of measure and number.” ArtFormValuesLevelsNumbersArt IsUniversalMethodMereIndividualityLastingWorks Of ArtSpontaneityCalculations Author:Theo van Doesburg
“Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?” PeopleThinkingSeemsLife IsValuesCultureGamesSpeakLevelsWorryGroupsChildhoodSurvivalThreatRationalProductiveSomedayZeroAprilPsychologistCollectivismBenevolentAnnoyanceZero Sum Game Author:L. Neil Smith
“I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.” WayShouldMayMeanPlayValuesSocialJusticeLevelsPrinciplesSupportToo MuchObjectsParticularSeriousHigherSocial JusticeRoundsInvestingVariousTechniqueIncomeRecoveryLatterSchemesRight WayEmphasisRestrictionOutputStimulationPurchasingExpediencyPurchasing Power Author:John Maynard Keynes
“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.” BelieveCountryPastValuesSoundLevelsCommonBusinessSituationTakenWeekConditionsSonAmountDestructionFundamentalsInvestmentMy SonContinuingWarrantsPurchasing Author:John D. Rockefeller
“If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.” IfsTryingLooksJobsValuesLevelsCuttingHappenedCreationTaxesArgumentInvestmentAidsDivisionAssetsHealthcareUnemploymentStampsHousingLoanTax CutsPortfoliosJob CreationFood Stamps Author:William J. Clinton
“In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.” NeedsArtValuesLevelsCasesTeacherPiecesWrittenPaintingFineCriticsPainterInstructionComposerSuperficialExplainingAmbiguityNonverbal Author:Stanley Kubrick
“Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high?” ValuesLevelsLowsInvestingYieldRatios Author:Walter Schloss
“Learning to say prayers in a foreign language...is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing of transcending value to be gained from substituting one set of cultural conventions for another. People whose practice remains on this superficial level end up with nothing but confusion, not knowing who they are or what they should do.” PeopleWayShouldHumansEndsValuesLanguagePrayerLevelsPracticeKnowingLearningHighestRemainsConfusionConventionsNot KnowingSuperficialHuman PotentialForeign LanguageTranscending Author:Thubten Yeshe
“I believe that a lot of people in our society today, people who have been hurt and even people who haven't been hurt, get their worth and value from what they do, what they look like, what they own, what kind of job they have, what kind of house they live in, how much money they have, what social circles they're in, what level of education they have, especially even how other people respond to them. They feel better about themselves if everybody is giving a smiling nod to the way they look and all their choices.” PeopleIfsWayGivingFeelsBelieveLooksKindHas BeensTodayJobsValuesChoicesHouseI BelieveSocialHurtLevelsHavensCirclesOur SocietyFeel BetterBeen HurtSociety Today Author:Joyce Meyer
“The primary role of the church is to reflect God's value system in society and to train people in that value system. It's not the government's responsibility, nor are they equipped to do that on the most local level where the need exists.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentValuesChurchLevelsResponsibilityRolesTrainLocalsPrimariesValue Systems Author:Tony Evans
“We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. . . . Communities are the ground-level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems.” KnowsValuesCommunityLevelsSecurityIdentityMembersBelongingEthicalGenerator Author:John Gardner
“Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.” ValuesAbilityLevelsTechnologyGenerationsInformationDependsIntellectualTasksMachinesIncreaseManageComplexityContrastInformation Technology Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.” HumansAgeValuesIndividualHuman BeingsLevelsCenturyAcquireUnimaginableExtravaganceWastefulness Author:Peter Robinson