Value Quotes

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

~ Ada Lovelace

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

~ Karl Marx

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

~ Gilbert Highet

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

~ David Bergen

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

~ George Mason

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

~ Ernie Banks

The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It's patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.

~ Mohnish Pabrai

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

~ Virginia Woolf

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

~ Yuvraj Singh

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

~ Ray Kurzweil

We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.

~ Cate Blanchett

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

~ Jeane Kirkpatrick

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

~ Paul Dirac

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

~ Sharron Angle

It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.

~ Alexa Von Tobel

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

~ Thomas Hardy

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

~ Claude Pepper

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Intelligence work in the Marine Corps proved to me the strategic value in establishing a Central Command to act as a clearinghouse for disparate bits and floating bytes of information.

~ Todd Young

As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.

~ John O. Brennan

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

~ Antony Gormley

The long-term value of amplifying the intelligence of people is a lot more important than betting on sports.

~ Louis B. Rosenberg

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

~ Stephen Cambone

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

~ Willie Stargell

There is a core value I wanted to illuminate: No matter what kind of family you have - straight, gay, married, single parent, separated, no kids, two kids, 20 kids, whatever - we all go through the human comedy. But if the bonds are strong enough, and the desire is there, you can get to the other side, still together and still a family.

~ Lisa Cholodenko

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

~ Mike Honda

I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.

~ Karisma Kapoor

Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.

~ Alex Lowe

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

~ Emeril Lagasse

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

~ Antoni Gaudí

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

~ Thomas Heatherwick

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

~ Thom Mayne

Western environmentalists might value their independence, but their organizations are largely donor driven, and if he wanted to, Putin could have a lot to donate.

~ Robert Zubrin

Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

~ Tariq Ali

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

~ George Weinberg

There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.

~ Anant Agarwal

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer' anything else is waste.

~ Eric Ries

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

~ Jean De La Fontaine