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“One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.”

Thinking Years Values Courses Difficult Quality Struggle Impossible Judging Educational

Author:Roy Romer

“I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."”

“Through the good times and bad, the quality of your relationships will ultimately determine the quality of your life. So be grateful for your loved ones and focus on adding as much value to their lives as you possibly can.”

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Author:Hal Elrod

“To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.”

Ifs Art Values Quality Mystery Painting Harm Feats Irreparable Irreparable Harm

Author:Georges Braque

“It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.”

Art Values Quality Absolutes Moved Visuals Aesthetic Sheer Concentrating Decoration Visual Art Autonomous Beholder

Book:Clement Greenberg, Late Writings

Source: Clement Greenberg, Late Writings

“An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.”

Action Values Quality Subjects Artistic Titles Abstract Sensitivity Viewers

Book:The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

“From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.”

People Values Quality Capacity Ideals Affair Practicals Devotion

Book:Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Presidential Addresses and State Papers of Theodore Roosevelt

“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.”

Whole Certain Values Humanity Race Quality Generations Mankind Type Fit Prove Survival Average Superiors Proportion Drag Homo Sapiens

Author:Charles Galton Darwin

“The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an existence independent of anyone's awareness of it. When it comes along, it always has, at first, a low value. Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.”

Firsts Facts Values Existence Quality Wonderful Awareness Birth Lows Discovery Increase Independent Disappear Wonderful Things Observers Presumption Looseness

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to do so.”

“Thus those reformers, who look for a remedy by creating artificial carrying-costs for the money through the device of requiring legal-tender currency to be periodically stamped at a prescribed cost in order to retain its quality as money, or in analogous ways, have been on the right track; and the practical value of their proposals deserves consideration.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

“We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.”

Doe Two Reason Problem Lying Values Quality Return Function Absolutes Treatment Superstitions Balanced Arbitrary Positively Critique Obsessive Two Options

Author:John Ralston Saul

“Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.”

Needs Values Given Social Quality Groups Depends Habit Members Aim Social Life Socialization

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.”

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Author:Clifford Stoll

“It's mind-boggling to consider that movies this bad are actually committed to film. The poor quality of The Pest in almost every category - humor, intelligence, creativity, and just plain entertainment value - ranks it somewhere between a bad infomercial and a local cable newscast. Rarely do I consider the act of seeing a movie to be a chore, but this kind of experience is the exception.”

Mind Kind Film Values Poor Quality Creativity Seeing Committed Entertainment Locals Exception Categories Cables Chores Pests Mind Boggling Poor Quality Infomercials

Author:James Berardinelli

“There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.”

Life Giving Doe Seems Form Success Values Winning Ability Quality Fate Air Position Depends Birth Great Things Success In Life Eminence Deference

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.”

Ifs Knows Different Values Quality Different Values

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.”

Values Memories Quality Flower Appearance Sentimentality Thrift Quilts

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.”

Hard Values Quality Compassion Weakness Tough Punishment Patriarchy Linked Masculinity Negotiation Femininity Vengeance Reconciliation Exalted Powerlessness Vindictiveness

Author:Starhawk

“Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.”

People Ifs Humans Mean Certain Values Humanity Black Human Beings White Quality Saws Color Red Advantage Skins Brown Halls Warmth Black People Faded Textiles

Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life

Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life

“There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to encourage small business, to encourage ownership, to expand access to quality health care, to enhance opportunity by making higher education more affordable to American's young people, to have our children live in safe neighborhoods, drug-free, crime-free, and a safe and clean environment, first and foremost to provide for the national defense, to protect and defend the American people, and to have accountability for our budget and for our spending.”

“The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do it, with ledgers of 'hows' balanced with 'its' that dissolve in the crashing changes ahead. The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character mind-set, values, principles, and courage.”

Mind Character Today Values Leadership Quality Leader Principles Lessons Focused Balanced Millennium Mind Set

Author:Frances Hesselbein

“As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split between the ideals of being efficient and being humane. This integration of female values is already producing a more collaborative kind of leadership, and changing the very ideal of what strong leadership actually is.”

Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership

“the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.”

Values Leadership Views Quality Greater Acceptance Findings Female Connections Oneself Valuable Inclusion Emerging Strengthening Leadership Qualities

Book:The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership

Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership

“My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present”

Reason Today Past Artist Values Pleasure Interesting Quality Painting Essentials Concern Historical Dues Manners Representation Historical Value

Book:The Painters of Modern Life

Source: The Painters of Modern Life

“The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.”

Men May Book Form Values Quality All Things Impact Plasticity

Book:Summer

Source: Summer

“Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”

Ifs World Firsts Heart Important Ends Hands Political Values Individual Social Quality Products Program Structure Work Out Head And Heart Zen Motorcycle Maintenance Social Values

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“People love to hear music on their personal devices, but the issue really becomes, if you're able to download music, you should know this download and the quality of it is going to be of the highest, and that it has a value to it and on it.”

People Ifs Knows Should Able Values Quality Issues Highest Devices Downloads

Author:Stevie Wonder

“America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.”

America Values Culture Silence Quality Style Communication Direct East Characteristics Germany Privacy Individualism Dominant Introvert Restraint Asia Fast Paced Noisy Finland East Asia

Author:Laurie Helgoe

“The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we're forced to make difficult choices about our parents, other loved ones, or even ourselves that ultimately boil down to calculations of worth and value.”

People Mean Care Values Choices Parent Difficult Quality Situation Development Health Care Loved Ones Calculations Difficult Choices

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.”

Ifs May Values Culture Love Is Quality Missing Ambition Pursuit Our Love

Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.”

May Values Process Quality Conditions Elements Defined Decay

Author:Johan Huizinga

“The real genres: good and bad.”

Real Values Quality Criticism Genre Good And Bad

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.”

Years Firsts Children Mother Desire Values Quality Study Balance Independence Lists Obedience Fifty Conformity Strict Autonomy Surveys Indiana

Author:Richard Louv

“Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.”

Source: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society

“... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom, intrinsic uselessness whichconstitutes the guarantee of its integrity, and hence of its ultimate value to us.”

May Ends Poetry Values Quality Feminism Poet Integrity Ultimate Guarantees Stubborn Subordinates Misuse Uselessness

Author:Jan Clausen

“Of all the human values, three are most important. The foremost is love of God. Where there is love there is sacrifice. There arises purity of heart. There should be a fusion of love, sacrifice and purity. They are not mere human qualities. They constitute vital organs of a human being. They are as essential for a human being as the head, hands and legs for the body. Without these attributes, no one is a complete human being.”

“Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.”

Love Values Literature Quality Inspire Selfish Selfishness Inspire Love

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.”

Men Certain Values Quality Willing Accomplished Faculty Favour

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.”

Giving Enough Values Quality Evidence Extremes Stupidity Attributes Despise

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Value the quality of your articles over the number of articles you write. I know a lot of bloggers focus on writing as many articles as possible, but I've realized over the years that you cannot sacrifice quality if you wish to build a loyal following on your blog.”

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Author:Jeet Banerjee

“Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.”

People Humans Values Opportunity Community Human Beings Quality Roles Citizens Comfort Members Addiction Consumers Mentality Convenience Quality Of Life Reconnecting

Author:Tim DeChristopher

“There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its nature traces of all its preceding states with a practical remembrance which can always be aroused. Since it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each one calls his me. This renders it open to moral qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after this life, for immortality without remembrance would be of no value.”

Knows Soul States Would Be Values Consciousness Quality Moral Argument Karma Practicals This Life Preserves Immortality Remembrance Demonstrating Chastisement Recompense

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.”

Men May Persons Values Quality Duty Hypocrisy Endowment Great Person

Book:The Spectator: A New Edition

Source: The Spectator: A New Edition

“There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials… I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness.”

Has Beens Inspiration Values Quality Materials Messages Artistic Abandoned Inherent Raw Materials Recycling Worthlessness

Author:Ptolemy

“Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.”

Values Quality Four Development Cost Projects Excellent Stakes Scope Variables

Book:Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

Source: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

“Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.”

Values Quality Excellence Quantity

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Pap Machinery uses LubeMate products to keep our truck fleet moving so we can provide timely service to our customers. LubeMate has proven they manufacture quality products that meet our daily demands. The LubeMate team at Valley Industries has provided excellent service and their products are an exceptional value.”

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Author:Greg Roberts

“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.”