Quotes of: Values Keyword

At this very moment you are probably basing your value on how other people value you, even though most of the time, you don’t even know what these people really think. You are assuming what they think based on behavior you interpreted. In truth, mo...

Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness

Each year about 600,000 start-ups are launched. Less than 0.5 percent attract VC. Of Inc. magazine's annual list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the United States assessed over a decade (1997–2007), less than 20 percent of companies were ve...

The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies

Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our lifestyle choices often reveal our values, or at least what we’d like people to perceive as our values…as we make...

The Art of Choosing

Maybe we feel meaning only when we deal with something bigger. Perhaps we hope that someone else, especially someone important to us, will ascribe value to what we've produced? Maybe we need the illusion that our work might one day matter to many peo...

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves

You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? Yo...

Song of Solomon

By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car...

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

Don’t be afraid to stand tall in YOUR truth! Boldly and confidently face everything that has, and is, keeping you bound. Fight for your inner peace! Fight for your happiness! Fight for everything and everybody that’s important to you! You are NOT...

Stephanie Lahart

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Caravan of Dreams

The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.

Classical Myth

Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that are important. … it's vanity.

City of Stairs

They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Culture and Value

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

Culture and Value

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Culture and Value

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

Doom Of Youth

Loss taught me the priceless value of friends. I would have lost it but for my friends.

Excursions in my Mind

The emptiness of your pocket is not a recipe for you to discount the value of your passion!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

House of Chains

Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

Boundaries in Dating

Before one finds peace with God, he must have lived, loved and lost something of value to him.

Black Ink

It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.

Alice Waters