#commodity

People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#anything #asking #commodity #five #give

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#commodity #determined #exchange #exchanged #fact

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast. ↗

— Brett Hull

#able #commodity #fast #fight #going

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself. ↗

— Jane Asher

#being #commodity #home #i #i see

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#culture #i #our #sad #say

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#aiming #been #commodity #democracy #focus

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#commodities #commodity #constant #given #man

You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#because #championships #commodity #day #entire

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare? ↗

— Susan George

#commodity #education #fight #healthcare #marketable

Time is the scarcity, and it's the commodity we can't create any more of. ↗

— Jim Mitchell

#commodity #create #more #scarcity #time