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“Barriers are continually being made out of... new values which have overturned the barriers of the past. Thus one sees that it is not basically the new value that is of prime importance, but rather the spirit that is revealed in this value, as well as the freedom necessary for this revelation.”

Wells Made Past Spirit Values Importance Revelations Barriers Prime

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.”

Seems Values Issues Greater Criticism Constructive Constructive Criticism Unequivocal Heuristics

Author:Ernst Mayr

“It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.”

Should Values Produce Color Drawing

Author:Camille Pissarro

“Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.”

Whole Together Values Land Produce Equal Ordinary Rate Profit Belonging Usual Agriculture Cultivation

Book:The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

Source: The Works of David Ricardo: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.”

“A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.”

Men World Said Values Left Women He Man Products Equality Chiefs Gentleman Suffrage

Author:Anna Howard Shaw

“You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.”

Ifs Government Care Values Sacrifice Behavior Don't Care Agency Wrong Things Government Agencies

Author:Edward Snowden

“I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you see.”

People Ifs Want Ends Facts Values Painting Argument Paint Canvas Pins Humanistic Old Values

Author:Frank Stella

“You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.”

Stills Values Design Color Painting Drawing

Author:Matt Smith

“We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.”

“If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.”

Ifs Knows Values

Author:Bernard Hopkins

“It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.”

Important Self Matter Feelings Happens Values No Matter What Self Worth

Author:Vartan Gregorian

“Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.”

Persons Humor Values Attention Economy Persuasive

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.”

Character Values Turns Wealth Poor Economy Building Wealthy Character Building

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.”

Humans Mean Ideas Values Women Feminism Demand Profound Revolutionary Parenthood Banking Women Equality Human Psyche Revolutionary Ideas

Author:Polly Toynbee

“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.”

People Believe Reason Faces Values Sound Levels Nice Guarantees Cynical Cynicism Fooled Cynic Devious Face Value

Author:David Hyde Pierce

“Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed.”

Ifs Needs Success Values Belief Imagination Vision Succeed Agree Internals Flood

Book:Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate

Source: Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate

“I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.”

Knows World Way Want I Can Different Certain Values Culture Identity Depth One Way Our World Different Cultures

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“This is tremendous. The labels have been saying all along that they can't compete with free, but there is a way to compete with free: high value content that's virus- free and gives people the chance to be first in line to buy expensive concert tickets. This is like loyalty clubs at the supermarkets.”

People Way Giving Firsts Has Beens Values Lines Chance Clubs Loyalty Labels Expensive Concerts Tickets Viruses Supermarkets

Author:Jonathan Potter

“Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.”

Firsts Values Realizing Impression First Impression Impressionism

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.”

Values Social Growth Natural Steps Economic Achieve Resources Including Economic Growth Accounting Natural Resources Equitable Social Capital

Author:Achim Steiner

“As we battle the high price of fuel, cost efficiency will continue to be a top priority not only for airlines but for every partner in the value chain including airports and air navigation service providers.”

Values Air Battle Cost Including Partners Priorities Chains Fuel Efficiency Airports Airline Providers Navigation Top Priorities High Prices Service Providers

Author:Giovanni Bisignani

“EMA research evidences strong and growing interest in leveraging log data across multiple infrastructure planning and operations management use cases. But to fully realize the potential complementary value of unstructured log data, it must be aligned and integrated with structured management data, and manual analysis must be replaced with automated approaches. By combining the RapidEngines capabilities with its existing solution, SevOne will be the first to truly integrate log data into an enterprise-class, carrier-grade performance management system.”

“The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.”

Values Habit Conservative Terrorism Administration Nasty Conservative Values

Author:Tom Fitton

“The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.”

Values Obvious Subtle Ads Repetition Transmission

Book:Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society

Source: Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society

“The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.”

Ifs Firsts Doe Important Values Interest Share Policy Europe Endure Disagree Alliances

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.”

People Thinking World Needs Littles Happens Today Values Left Judging Achievement Happenings Busy Speed Things Happen Meaning Of Life Little Time Time Left Little Time Left

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood.”

People Today Political Values Found Attitude Growing Childhood Normal Our Children Priorities Developing Value Of Life

Author:Tom Segev

“The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an extension of a process begun more than a year ago to ensure the foods we offer had high nutritional value.”

Needs Years Has Beens School Values Process Students Offers Years Ago Nutrition Committees Extensions Curves Coventry

Author:Michael Reeves

“It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.”

Real Jobs Artist Values Beauty Cases Goodness Aim Real Things Enchanted

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.”

Want Hands Values Born Progress New Work

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.”

Values Sacred Holiness Inherent Hierarchy

Author:Starhawk

“The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.”

Values Violence Cost Increase Dear Stakes Discouraging Fundamentalist Persecuted Desertion

Author:Pascal Boyer

“The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.”

Stills Values Painting Stronger Painter Subtle

Author:John F. Carlson

“Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.”

Values Growth Company Essentials

Author:Stuart Rose

“Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.”

Years Has Beens Past Values Community Creation Internet Majority Consumers Venture Over The Past

Author:Bill Gurley

“Instead of scrambling for security in national victory and domination, in preparation for war and military aggression, we must relearn the values of cooperation and sharing, of nonviolence and support.”

War Values Peace Support Security Military Victory Preparation Cooperation Nonviolence Aggression Domination

Author:Marva Dawn

“The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.”

Mean Doe Values Method Dimensions Expansion Deliberate

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.”

Art Values Lost Differences Theory Art Is Analysis Butterfly Pins Meadows Fluttering Like A Butterfly

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“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

“A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.”

Values Painting Critical Assessment Intrinsic Value

Author:Robert Genn

“You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.”

Way Light Values Clear Cutting Conditions Subjects Painting Stronger Sticks Paint Faithful Appropriate Yield Sensible Multitudes

Author:Richard Schmid

“Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.”

Life Sometimes Hard Motivational Earth Lying Values Hard Work Highest Gold This Life Diamond Great Value

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?”

Men World Should Made Facts Values Compassion Creation Humility Vegan Units Stewardship Veganism Presumption Small Parts

Book:The range of light: photographs

Source: The range of light: photographs

“In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.”

Inspirational Believe Motivational Values Opportunity Difficult Challenges Situation Wise Perspective Insightful Difficult Situations

Book:You Can If You Think You Can

Source: You Can If You Think You Can

“Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith.”

Values Sleep Worry Dog Objects Ruins Grieving

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“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

“Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.”

World Mind Matter Faces Science Values Moral Knowledge Mystery Accounts Constant Endeavor Reverence Face To Face Moral Values Value Of Life Knowledge Of The World Mind And Matter

Book:Where is science going?

Source: Where is science going?

“I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.”

Ideas Helping Wanted Values Parent Class Figures College Months Six Saving No Idea Expensive Help Me Working Class Six Months Savings Tuition Stanford Going To College College Tuition

Author:Steve Jobs

“Who has the right to decide that the supreme value is a world without insects even though it would be a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight. The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power.”

World Would Be Values Decision Environment Bird Wings Environmental Supreme Flight Insects Birds In Flight

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

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