#valued

Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#undervalued #vanity

First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#everybody #feel #first #foremost #fun

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#better #less #money #more #supposedly

Health is not valued till sickness comes. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#health #sickness #till #valued

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#back #creativity #energy #excitement #exciting

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. ↗

— Tony Blair

#devalued #hopeless #just #modern #purchase

By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#bundle #combinations #consumers #demonstrably #found

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. ↗

— Angela Carter

#never #object #passion #perhaps #than

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#essential #existence #freedom #human #human existence

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#because #film #gratifying #hands #how