“I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.” WantI CanValuesPartyPrinciplesRight NowConservativeCandidatesProgressiveNot InterestedConservative PartyMergersConservative Values Author:Peter MacKay
“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."” ThinkingGivingLongI CanEnoughMomentsTogetherRememberValuesMemoriesQualityHonorRight NowMessagesMy FriendsSeasonsCalmCommunicateChristmasOur TimeHolidayFinestPausesContributingGood MemoriesHoliday Season Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.” I CanFeelingsValuesConceptsSubstance Author:Ella Maillart
“I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantLoveI CanMatterValuesHigherRateWithout Love Book:Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon Source: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
“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.” KnowsWorldWayWantI CanDifferentCertainValuesCultureIdentityDepthOne WayOur WorldDifferent Cultures Author:Yo-Yo Ma
“If I do get a handgun, I can take it to the sheriff's department, and in about as much time as it would take me to order a value meal at Wendy's, they will give me a concealed-carry license. There will be no screening at all to see whether I'm qualified to carry a gun in public - which I absolutely am not. That's one of the reasons I haven't gotten a gun in the first place: I don't know how to use one.” IfsKnowsGivingFirstsI CanReasonUseValuesOrderKnow HowHavensGunGive MeMealsDepartmentTake MeLicenseQualifiedConcealedScreeningHandgunsSheriffsWendyConcealed Carry Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“I value the momentum of making the list and the drive to tick. Sometimes I add stuff I've already accomplished so I can get going on my feelings of accomplishment.” I CanSometimesFeelingsValuesStuffAddListsAccomplishmentAccomplishedMomentumTick Author:Sara Genn
“When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.” WritingTryingKindDoeI CanReasonValuesInterestNaturalMy OwnFictionDramaWeaknessMediumsEndowmentSlenderConfessingNatural Phenomena Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust - a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.” LooksI CanTwoValuesOpinionEmotionalPeriodsAuthorityElementsWeightFoundationClassicColourIntensityDistrustRevoltExtravagance Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.” PeopleTryingYearsI CanValuesGivenMy OwnCapableStandardsExpectationsCarefulBest WorkFaith And Love Author:Jackie DeShannon
“The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward, which is that if I see something that I like and I can see it's value to the audience and it's value to me then I'm going to take my shot at it regardless at the genre.” IfsI CanPhilosophyValuesAudienceShotsCleanGenreStraightforward Author:Dwayne Johnson
“I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard.” WantMeanChildrenI CanUseValuesThreeCollegeFinancialDebtLimitationDisregardDebt Free Author:Michelle Singletary
“I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.” IfsWorldLittlesI CanBigsHappensValuesInfluenceWorstQuittingCoreWorst ThingsSlidesCore ValuesConcluding Author:Steve Jobs
“I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingBelieveMeanStillsI CanSometimesPainValuesReadingAnswersFansTruth IsLettersNecksReally Mean Author:Steven Tyler
“I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.” IfsKnowsHas BeensI CanAbleValuesNextSoundHavensIndiaOneselfRealisingCommodityNext DayLiving My LifeGuru Author:Cherie Lunghi
“At Zappos, one of our core values is to Pursue Growth and Learning. In the lobby of our headquarters, we have a giving library where we give away books to employees and visitors that we think will help with their growth, both personally and professionally. I can't wait to add The Compound Effect to our library.” ThinkingGivingI CanBookHelpingValuesWaitingGrowthEffectsAddLibraryCorePursueEmployeeCompoundsVisitorsCore ValuesHeadquarters Author:Tony Hsieh
“I've long held the belief that as a leader, I can't ask of you something that I can't do myself, and I can't impose on you values that I don't live out.” LongI CanValuesAsksBeliefLeader Author:Jesse Robredo
“I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsYearsI CanValuesGoldAdmireOnly LoveCzechPrague Author:Ellis Peters
“I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take this risk because I am now in my eighth decade, and the changing opinions of men scarcely impress me any more; the thoughts of the old masters are of greater value to me than the philosophical prejudices of the Western mind.” KnowsMenMindI CanMatterValuesOpinionGreaterRiskMastersPrejudicePhilosophicalWesternDecadesUncertainImpress Author:Carl Jung