“My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.” Has BeensFactsValuesStrongInfluenceHugeEnormousGrandmotherVery StrongMy GrandmotherFormidable Author:Anthony Minghella
“The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.” IfsWayDesirePurposeValuesInfluenceYouthConversationSpeakersHonorableEloquenceCountrymenAmerican Youth Author:George Frisbie Hoar
“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
“In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.” ValuesOrderOpportunityCommonNumbersGroupsInfluenceMastersMembersSlaveVarietyEducateUndertakingsLarge Numbers Author:John Dewey
“Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.” MomentsValuesLostViewsForeverInfluenceJudgingLabourArticlesCommerceUtilityBygones Author:William Stanley Jevons
“The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.” WorldGivingRealValuesLanguageProcessFeminismInfluenceEmpoweringReal WorkValue Systems Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“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
“Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists, anarcho-primitivists, and so forth (The "GA Movement") have fallen under such heavy influence from the left that their rebellion against civilization has to great extent been neutralized. Instead of rebelling against the values of civilization, they have adopted many civilized values themselves and have constructed an imaginary picture of primitive societies that embodies these civilized values.” RealValuesLeftTechnologyInfluenceMovementCivilizationGreenHeavyFallenRebellionCivilizedImaginaryPrimitiveAdoptedAnarchist Author:Theodore Kaczynski
“The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.” CountryAmericaPoliticalValuesNamesPartyPracticeInfluenceRepublicanShameOur CountryDivisionRepublican PartyTacticsSlanderReligion And Politics Author:John McCain
“The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.” MenGivingMindArtLawJoyValuesGrowthStudyInfluenceHigherArt IsSightCaughtIntellectEvery ManSensesObservationHintsScrapRefining Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.” ShouldHumansMeanEndsValuesUnderstandingEducationInfluenceConditionsSubjectsStudentsProsperityPrioritiesUselessHuman ConditionIrrelevantAcquisitionValue Of EducationUseless Knowledge Author:Roger Scruton
“The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. It will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.” PeopleWorldMeanPersonsValuesWatchesDoubtInfluenceCitizensBehaviorDetailsTechniqueObjectivesTraditionalPermanentNo DoubtElitesFulfillingNwoTraditional Values Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“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 like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. What he hungers for is definitely going to be affected by what he got or didn't get in those years when he was forming his psyche and his values. So I think villains are made.” ThinkingYearsBelieveMadeValuesBornInfluenceSkillsHungerAffectedVillain Author:Ron Perlman
“Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.” MomentsValuesCommunityInfluenceOnlineHierarchyAdding Value Author:Gary Hamel