Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.
It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.
What is usually called 'intelligence' refers to the linguistic and logical capacities that are valued in certain kinds of school and for certain school-like tasks. It leaves little if any room for spatial intelligence, personal intelligences, musical intelligence, etc.
Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized.
Health is just not valued until illness comes.
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.
Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.
There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by a different community. I was talking to Galway Kinnell one day, and he said that there was an audience for poetry up until about 1920 and then, from that point on, the poets and the critics drifted.
In the future, Chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause of ailments.
When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued. " (From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)
If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.
The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.
Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special. There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute.
The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose names thereafter became illustrious. The thumbed volumes, now so precious to thousands, were compiled from personal experiences and owe their interest to touches of inspiration of which the writer was less author than amanuensis, himself the voiced word of life for all times.
Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.
Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.