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The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

James J. Gibson

Meaning

Value

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

J. Paul Getty

Books

Value

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Antonio Gaudi

Value

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Humor

Attention

Value

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Nothing

Pollution

Value

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.