"I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repe..."
"I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them."
"They value different things in every country. In England, it's very physical. You tackle, you shoot. I love watching it. In Spain, it's different. Pass the ball, move, find the space."
"It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself."
"The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic."
"I can understand the value of the immigrant experience and that we have become the nation that we are because people like my grandmother were able to make a life in this country."
"Every time I get an autograph, I feel like I'm taking home a little piece of that star. What drives me is the intrinsic value."
"Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where on the planet it happens to find itself. But, of course, not every life has the same value for us."
"Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold."
"Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality."
"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."
"The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people."
"Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things."
"Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture."
"The world gives you money in exchange for something it perceives to be of equal or greater value: something that transforms an aspect of the culture, reworks a familiar story or introduces a new one, alters the way people think about the category and make use of it in daily life."
"Somewhere along the way, we made it unpopular to value oneself outside the structure of fame. We created these new categories, even - reality stars, YouTube stars, Instagram-famous, Twitter-famous - when we enlarged the fame game board to allow new valuations within the fame structure to accommodate as many people as possible."
"I've engineered my life so that my only value in this world is in my writing, which is really dangerous, because if it's a failure, then my life is meaningless."
"I think there's real value in having a founder CEO. Obviously, I'm biased, but I'm driven by a purpose and a mission and a vision, not just profits."
"At Eventbrite, we value quality results over everything else. So while working late is acknowledged, at the end of the day, I care more about the results you're producing."
"You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another."
"Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization."
"It became clear to me that our value as people is not in our stock portfolios and bank accounts but in the legacies we leave behind."
"I think one of the things I really learned in Denver is the value of being a good listener."
"We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society."
"When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future."
"They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go."
