Subjective Value Quotes

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.

I never think any place is better than others.

There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

That doesn't matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it's great.

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer becomes less and less convincing?

Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.

My album to me is something, but anyone who buys it, it's whatever it is to them. I don't like telling people what specifics are of the record, because that could ruin it as an experience for someone else.

Writing books can be very individual - one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life.

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note.

I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen ... [W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you.

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

Forget good for you - art should be good to you.

All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think are nonsense. You write what you write, and then either it holds up or it doesn't hold up. There are no rules or particular sensibilities. I don't believe in that at all anymore.