#value

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever. ↗

— Auguste Lumiere

#camera #commercial #curiosity #exploited #invention

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#common good #country #depends #diverse #duty

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak. ↗

— Shemar Moore

#because #before #even #face #face value

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#czech #every #feel #go #gold

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas." ↗

— Claude Pepper

#age #bananas #buy #even #every

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#exaggerates #forgets #i #only #regard

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#rationality #values #satisfaction

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humility #pride #christianity

I want to buy a sports car, because I like riding bicycles. Hold on to my handlebar mustache if you value your life.
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— Jarod Kintz

#life #mustache #non-sequitur #sports-car #value

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference. ↗

— Robert Coles

#story #value #imagination