“Although many of us probably didn't get a thorough education in the value of a positive attitude, we can teach ourselves. Simply by making a decision to look for the good, happy, and beautiful in all things and all people, you will have completed the first and most important step in learning to accentuate the positive.” PeopleThinkingFirstsLooksImportantBeautifulValuesDecisionAttitudeStepsTeachPositive ThinkingAll ThingsPositive AttitudeThoroughAccentuate Author:Sue Thoele
“Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.” IfsMenArtActionValuesTeachHumilityArt IsToleranceValue Of LifeRight ActionMagnanimityGreat Value Book:Mr. Maugham Himself Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.” WaySchoolValuesMy OwnTeachPracticeStudyFailingMirrorsInvestmentEnvironmentalUniversityShockingYaleCitingAlma MaterYale University Author:Edward Norton
“When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.” Would BeValuesThreeFeltRealizingTeachLaughingComedyDadPureMy DadShockSwearChasingSwear WordShock Value Author:Sarah Silverman
“The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.” WayBigsMightSchoolValuesHateClassTeachExampleFinancialDebtHandleGrandmotherLiteracyMy GrandmotherMamaFinancial LiteracyBig Mama Author:Michelle Singletary
“No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.” MenFirstsHumansSoulValuesFoundTeachDivineHe ManLessonsWasteTerrorMortalsToysHuman SoulColossalShortness Book:The Stones of Venice: The fall Source: The Stones of Venice: The fall
“I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.” PeopleThinkingNeedsValuesTeachStudentsLonelyTeenagerBullyLonely People Author:Nick Vujicic
“Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.” ValuesTeachRightsTreeSolitudeHillsNobilitySingularityLegal Rights Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson
“I think Americas food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, its very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.” ThinkingWorldChildrenRealValuesCultureCoursesDifficultTeachEatingEmbeddedFast FoodReal QuestionsFood CultureEating Fast FoodSlow Food Author:Alice Waters
“I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.” ValuesTeachStrengthPrideWeakStores Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it.” IfsSelfKidsValuesStuffMoralTeachTeacherSelf ControlCurriculum Author:Tony Danza