Quotes for Values

I didn't want to be one of those people who was resentful. The moment you start saying to people that their lives must be miserable because they're sick, you give their sickness value over them.

Claire Wineland

I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more.

Jeff Dunham

If there's a sustainable job that will create sustainable value, people will hire for it.

David Cunliffe

Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

Claude Shannon

I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.

Bruce Robinson

We should widen our economic base and encourage businesses to move up the value chain and increase job diversity.

Carrie Lam

We will value public engagement.

Carrie Lam

Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm.

Merton Miller

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Douglas Preston

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

Mitch Albom

For me, the biggest thing I've learned is how to be myself and the fact that viewers actually want to feel like they're getting to know you as a person. They value you because you're a reporter and you're bringing them new information, but they also want to feel like they get a sense of your sense of humor and what things you're interested in.

Kasie Hunt

When I walk into a room, I know my storytelling has value and I have to sell my idea. I have to help people see the financial value and gain in my work.

Mara Brock Akil

Since everything in my life collapsed in '89, I was just determined that I wouldn't cave in. I wouldn't just go away or become a basket case. I knew the value of me as a person.

Sondra Locke

It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.

Danny Elfman

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

John Drinkwater

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Angelina Jolie

The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.

Jim Wallis

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic policy because that's a value judgment... I've had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree.

Franco Modigliani

I value multi-layered artwork that warrants a second glance, so I try my best to achieve that with my own work. If something is solely pretty or solely disgusting, you look at it once and get the gist and move on. If it's a mix of both, it's potentially more interesting.

Lisa Hanawalt