“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
“All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.” ValuesDecisionExerciseDecision MakingClarifying Author:Tony Robbins
“Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.” NeedsValuesGrowsClassVirtueRichExerciseLaborDignityImportanceIdleEloquentThriftHarps Author:Oscar Wilde
“The educative value of manual activities and of laboratory exercises, as well as of play, depends upon the extent in which they aid in bringing about a sensing of the meaning of what is going on. In effect, if not in name, they are dramatizations.” IfsWellsPlayValuesNamesEffectsDependsExerciseActivityAidsLaboratoryManualsSensing Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.” PeopleWayHumansSelfCountrySeemsPoliticalValuesOrderInterestSpaceViewsEconomicExerciseSucceedDestructionMovedInternationalTerrorismBackgroundsPeacefulImpulseBrutalIrrationalBentNegotiationAdvancementSelf InterestFactionsHuman ValuesScourgeCivilisedInternational Terrorism Author:Margaret Thatcher
“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
“We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.” IfsSaidUsedValuesTermPerfectVirtueExerciseEthicsArgumentAbsolutesRealizationIndispensableConditional Book:The Essential Aristotle Source: The Essential Aristotle
“Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.” MenYoungValuesFightingEvilBoysDevelopmentDisciplineExerciseTrainingRemainsYoung ManBoxingPrizeManlyAttending Book:Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport Source: Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport