Charles Frazier Quotes

Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work.

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

Certainly it's great to be able to talk to your friends about something. They might mention a film, and you can find all about it, and you don't have to wait months until you can find a book that might cover the subject and keep it in your head. You can have that kind of immediacy. But there's also something about it, where all the knowledge seems kind of fleeting. All the stuff I learn about in that way, I can be interested in for a day and then it's gone.

We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.

When things cost so much, you appreciate it much more.

When you're used to having nothing, the first time you have something, you get really focused. You know if you lose it, it may not be easy to get it back.

With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.

It's not hard to be valuable when you are a monopoly.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

Competence is no longer scarce.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand.

Everything has a price.

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.