Understanding Value Quotes

#1. You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

Phil McGraw

#2. High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

Dennis C. Blair

#3. Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.

Chellie Pingree

#4. Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

Steve Goodier

#5. One is not the victim of mentation but instead is the very originator by virtue of intention to extract projected value. With this understanding, one is free from being dominated by the false "I" of the experiencer.

David Hawkins

#6. We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one.

Ian Somerhalder

#7. Trials are a part of life, but there is value in sometimes experiencing adversity which will test (and so strengthen) our faith and also build an understanding of God and ourselves.

Eric Ives

#8. Value and purpose are about understanding the specific benefits you will help people receive if they receive what you have for them.

Zig Ziglar

#9. Understanding who you are within leads to changing a man's value and behavior

Sunday Adelaja

#10. To be mature you have to realize what you value most ... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#11. We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.

Wynton Marsalis

#12. How can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself.

Luigi Pirandello

#13. To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding.
It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#14. I've learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what's unsaid, what's underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

Anna Kamienska

#15. Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

Rockwell Kent

#16. Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life

Sunday Adelaja

#17. But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents' generation seems neither able nor interested in understanding how marketers exploit them. They take shopping at face value.

Douglas Coupland

#18. The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.

John Battelle

#19. Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end.

Harold Chestnut

#20. My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Frederick W. Smith

#21. Understanding and developing your true identity gives you intrinsic value and should impact your focus

Sunday Adelaja

#22. What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone; if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible.

Fernando Pessoa

#23. Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

Caleb Deschanel

#24. Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.

Sunday Adelaja

#25. So I don't see the theme of the story as nature versus science. I see it as a conflict between demanding and understanding, between the kinds of labor that our society values or doesn't value, "innovators" versus "maintainers." It's

Nalo Hopkinson

#26. The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

Anais Nin

#27. It seems to me that we value individuality, but only to a point. When what sets one person apart from another is beyond our understanding or becomes too much to handle, we dismiss the quirk and the soul that accompanies it to give ourselves the greatest comfort. What does that accomplish?

Kiera Cass

#28. Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.

Coreen T. Sol

#29. Few men do understand the nature of a woman's heart till years have robbed such understanding of its value.

Anthony Trollope

#30. People think "monsters" are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell ...

Charles Lee

#31. The ability to connect with others begins with understanding the value of people.

John C. Maxwell

#32. The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.

James Gilligan

#33. Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

Pythagoras

#34. All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.

Maria Montessori

#35. We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

David Ansen

#36. As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to know the value I placed on selfless love, I understand your nature better.

D. Morgenstern

#37. You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the "business value of risk management.

Pearl Zhu

#38. It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration they possess.

M. Russell Ballard

#39. Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.

Immanuel Kant

#40. The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.

Ryan Lilly

#41. The most important product of interactive planning is the planning process, not plans. It is in the planning process that knowledge, understanding, and wisdom are generated. It is in these acquisitions that the value of planning resides.

Anonymous

#42. How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors, we are somewhat limited in the proper use of color in rooms.

Van Day Truex

#43. ... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression in the specific numerical value of the fine structure constant, a theoretical understanding of which is still missing today.

Wolfgang Pauli

#44. Healthy skepticism is often the best way to glean the value of what's being presented - challenge it; prove it wrong, if you can. That creates engagement, which is the key to understanding.

David Allen

#45. The very ability to empathize with a user requires that I have an understanding of that user's value and needs. This is what leads to many product fails. The individuals developing the innovation don't actually use it.

David Livermore

#46. There should have some gap between Relations, to understand its value. Because you can't read anything which is too closed to your eyes

Samar Sudha

#47. ... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.

Max Weber

#48. My values are primarily motivated by love for other people. I value the non-human world in large part because it's so vital to human beings. Even my appreciation for wilderness grows out of an understanding of how important wilderness can be for people.

Tim DeChristopher

#49. Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

Joseph Fiennes

#50. We don't have in our culture a healthy understanding and respect for the value of Being, which is simply being present in the moment, not trying to go somewhere, not trying to accomplish anything but, just present.

Shakti Gawain

#51. What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#52. The true understanding of our own depravity isn't a punishment - it's an opportunity to understand the value of the gift.

Angie Smith

#53. The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others.

Jay Abraham

#54. A bad media creates a bad world and a good media makes the world good. The day all forms of media will stop functioning, we shall get a good understanding of the real meaning, value and impact of the media.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#55. It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

Steve Jobs

#56. The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#57. A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Robert Hall