Lupe Fiasco

We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.

American Musician

Opal Tometi

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities in different ways but ultimately leaves them undermined and really devalued in our society.

American Activist

Tom Anderson

MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I'm not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.

American Businessman

Michael Pollan

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.

American Educator

Hanya Yanagihara

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

American Novelist

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.

American Actor

Janet Mock

Our culture often demeans and devalues the work, the pleasures, and the contributions of women and feminine people. This is, in part, why beauty culture is dismissed as unimportant and frivolous.

American Writer

Gina Rodriguez

I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.

American Actress

Tony Blair

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

English Statesman

Lars von Trier

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Danish Director

Used when someone's opinion reduces something's value, not facts.

Subjective Value

Can affect someone emotionally if their work or effort is devalued.

Emotional Impact

Sometimes used constructively in conversations to balance overestimations.

Not Always Negative

Often a deliberate act by a country's government or central bank.

Government Decision

It can be a strategy to make a country's exports more competitive.

Economic Strategy

Such actions can lead to reactions in global financial markets.

Market Reactions

Refers to how the market views a product's worth due to various factors.

Market Perception

Implies a reduction in how good or useful people consider something.

Quality Association

 anybody can do that we've convinced ourselves that those are the only things we're celebrating and we start to devalue the things that we can do every day and we start to take moments where we truly are a leader and we don't let ourselves take credit for and we don't let ourselves feel good about it and I've been lucky enough over the last ten years to work with some amazing people who have helped me redefine leadership

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 that we've convinced ourselves those are the only things worth celebrating. We start to devalue the things we can do every day, We take moments where we truly are a leader and we don't let ourselves take credit for it, or feel good about it. I've been lucky enough over the last 10 years to work with amazing people who've helped me redefine leadership

Drew Dudley: Everyday...

 that a filmmaker should set about putting their own work outside or above what he or she believed to be a decent set of values for their own life, their own family, and the future of the society in which we all live. I'd go further. A responsible filmmaker should never devalue their work to a point at which it becomes less than true

David Puttnam: What...

 usually at the expense of the local, more resilient food systems that would have supplied that in the past, which we've so effectively devalued and dismantled. We can be astonishingly inventive and creative. But we also live in a world with very real constraints and demands.

Rob Hopkins: Transition...

 because our fire trucks did not have water. I grew up under repressive military governments that devalued education, so that sometimes, my parents were not paid their salaries. And so, as a child, I saw jam disappear from the breakfast table, then margarine disappeared,

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 But I should say a few words about what's going on. I think I'm looking and talking about the psychosocial effects of inequality. More to do with feelings of superiority and inferiority, of being valued and devalued, respected and disrespected.

How economic inequality...

 a few words about what's going on I think I'm looking and talking about the psychosocial effects of inequality more to do with feelings of superiority and inferiority of being valued and devalued respected and disrespected and of course

 Because pouring more money into broken systems may only fund more inefficiencies. And what deeply worries me -- if children go to school and don't learn, it devalues education,

The global learning...

 breath they didn't even know they were holding because they were internally waiting to be ignored and devalued once again the experience in finding support but most of all

Miracle Jones: The...

 And in particular, students of color are constantly devalued and marginalized. Regardless of background, students need to envision themselves as successful in life.

Devalue

To reduce or underestimate the worth or importance of.

Often appears as...

To reduce the official value of a currency.

Often appears as...

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To lessen the value or quality of something.

Often appears as...

Subjective Value

Emotional Impact

Not Always Negative

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