“It seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values (assuming that the canvas is white), and to continue in order to the lightest value. From the darkest to the lightest I would establish twenty shades...” ImportantSeemsValuesOrderStudyTwentiesShadePreparingIndication Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
“Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.” MenGivingMeanRealCharacterUsedValuesThousandTwentiesPoundsBoastDukesReal Value Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.” FirstsPersonsAmericaValuesWealthCommonEconomyEconomicCenturyHabitResourcesTwentiesInvestingFirmNineteenth CenturyReviveEconomic Resources Author:William J. Clinton
“Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.” YearsCountryValuesAnswersLeaderTeachingIntegrityRight NowTenTwentiesParentingOur CountryThirtyThirty YearsFamily ValuesCourage Strength Author:Barbara Bush
“What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.” IfsYearsMindKindMayPersonsHappensEarthValuesNationsAnswersAttitudeAcceptingMoralHellTakenMankindBabyConscienceTwentiesRegardFabricConfrontingMind SetValue Systems Author:Jesse Jackson
“We must be educated in inner human modesty, so we can recognize that we are not, even for a moment, complete as human beings. Instead, we continue to develop from birth until death. We must recognize that every day of life has a special value, that it is not without purpose that we must learn to live through our thirties right after we have just gone through our twenties. We need to learn that each new day and each new year offers continual revelation.” NeedsYearsHumansMomentsPurposeValuesHuman BeingsGoneSpecialBirthOffersTwentiesEducatedRevelationsNew YearModestyNew DayEach New Day Book:Education as a Force for Social Change Source: Education as a Force for Social Change
“Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.” Would BeValuesSoundCommunityMillionsThousandDegreesDiversitySurvivalHundredTwentiesSpeciesFactorsEcologyCatastropheTemperature Author:Daniel Quinn
“[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Launderette: This is where you go to wash your clothes. You put the money into the slot and then you chuck your clothes into the washing machine and about six hours and twenty-five dollars later all your clothes have shrunk and turned pink. Fantastic value” MeanValuesHoursFiveSixClothesMachinesTwentiesDollarsFantasticOfficialsExplainingWashingTwenty FiveChuckGumWashing Machines Author:Andy Stanton
“I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWayTryingUseBigsTodayUsedValuesMillionsTechnologyGoneKnowingBuildingInternetTenComputerMassHundredTwentiesCornersCustomersDrivenStoresFulfillmentCommerceNew WaysPioneersAmazonDatabasesComputer TechnologyPersonalizedMerchandising Author:Andy Grove
“There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.” ValuesPoorMoneyComfortLowsLaborGoldTwentiesAriseSilverPoundsGuineaHighs And LowsIntrinsic Value Author:Bernard de Mandeville