Beneficial Quotes - Page 13

• I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

  Charles Kennedy

  Essentials, Cigarette, Accepting

  "The New Statesman Interview - Charles Kennedy". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.newstatesman.com. Januray 29, 2011.

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• I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Views, Media

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• There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Animal, Soul, Sides

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.

  Dogen

  Ocean, Opportunity, Roots

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• The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Thinking, People, Historical

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• Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.

  Rick Doblin

  Acceptance, Data, Medicine

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• Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Law Of Attraction, Men

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Mar 22, 2013

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• The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

  Satish Kumar

  Acting, Small Steps, Stopping

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that are devoted to this and staffed by incredibly talented people who have skills that could be put to socially beneficial projects but who are now trying to find out how to make you click and how to maximize your time on a certain site, or encourage teenagers to "friend" more products and constantly engage with them.

  Astra Taylor

  Teenager, Technology, Skills

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You do understand that you can't force the situation, but in terms of how you edit, you can define that to take the audience along, whether it be a storyline or a character moment that we can play out. The more experience you've had, the more beneficial it is, period.

  Barry Levinson

  Character, Play, Moments

  "Barry Levinson on ‘Killing Fields’ and True Crime Storytelling". Interview with Hayden Cooper, collider.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Spreading the word about real issues is still helping. Just being conscious of helping animals every day will help guide you to make beneficial decisions for animals.

  Alison Eastwood

  Real, Animal, Issues

  "Alison Eastwood: Growing up in Hollywood, keeping grounded, and helping animals in need". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Acting, Way, Evidence

  Source: collider.com

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• HeartMath found that five minutes of feeling love and care can strengthen your immune system for up to six hours, whereas five minutes of feeling angry can weaken and suppress the immune system for six hours. Love releases very powerful, beneficial chemicals into the body.

  Marci Shimoff

  Powerful, Feelings, Care

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

  John L. Casti

  Thinking, Long, Trying

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• I don't see anything beneficial about the US spending 100 billion dollars to go back to the moon unless we learn something new that will help us go to the moons of Saturn okay and so we ought to use that to breed new breakthroughs and to test new breakthroughs and to fund it.

  Burt Rutan

  Moon, Dollars, Use

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We have rules in the house and a sticker chart for my kids to earn technology time. Maybe its because of the world I live in and work, that I don't see much of anything beneficial that comes out of social media for kids. Even though its how they communicate now, so you have to find the fine balance.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Kids, Technology, Media

  Source: frankviola.org

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• What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done. And it starts with that breath; it starts with getting out of my head and really just slowing the system down and being in a true present moment with each and every breath. That then allows me to be a more balanced and focused individual onstage.

  Jason Mraz

  Teacher, Yoga, Done

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• I think you only watch stuff you've done once because I don't think it's that beneficial to you. I think it's important to sometimes be like, 'What's that thing I'm doing with my face? I didn't think I was doing that.'

  Jamie Dornan

  Thinking, Important, Watches

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The key to overcoming resistance to change is to frame your actions and continually adjust them as you move forward to so that those who might be affected by any changes see them as useful and beneficial for them. This isn't as hard as it sounds. You just have to be vigilant in paying attention to how you're influencing the lives of people who matter.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Moving, Keys, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We had a wonderful department that scouted out new music. It was beneficial to Rolling Stone, because I would come back and say, "You have to hear this, you have to hear that," and I found a lot of bands to feature, emerging bands. It [ended up being] symbiotic.

  Jancee Dunn

  Stones, Rolling, Band

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Men, Faults

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pride, Giving, Inward

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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• I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in.

  Emma Stone

  Felt

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• A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Heart, Self

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• There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

  Abdul Kalam

  Force

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.106, Universities Press

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