Benefits Quotes - Page 23

• As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sky, Feet, Lakes

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• Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

  Sergey Belavenets

  Moving, Chess, Gains

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• Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

  Tony Snow

  Girl, Baby, Drawing

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• We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Real, Destiny

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• Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Exercise, Golf

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• I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.

  Denton Cooley

  Disappointment, Failure, Science

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.

  Judy Grahn

  Leadership, Teacher, Women

  Judy Grahn (1984). “Another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taken, Silence

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• The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Moving, Desire

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• We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Mistake, Failure, Learning

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• It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.

  Bernie Siegel

  Healing, Disease, Massage

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• When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money.

  W. Allen Wallis

  Retirement, Pay, Way

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• One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster.

  John Michael Greer

  Hands, People, Water

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• The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life’s traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Writing, Emotional, Negative

  James W. Pennebaker (2011). “The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us”, p.14, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Medical, Penalties, Homeopathy

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• To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you know what you're good at? Do you know what you need to learn so that you get the full benefit of your strengths? Few have even asked themselves these questions.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge, Successful, People

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• Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

  Mark Twain

  No Trust, Rising, Franklin

  Mark Twain (1981). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 2: 1864 -1865”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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• Even if one doesn't smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it.

  Danny DeVito

  Pot, Ifs, Smoke

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• Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise

  Shiv Khera

  Wise, People, Criticism

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jun 14, 2016

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• Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

  Seth Godin

  Moving, Ideas, Voice

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• The Complete Idiots Guide to Eating Raw is ideal for anyone looking to seamlessly adopt eating habits that will benefit overall health and boost athletic performance.

  Brendan Brazier

  Athletic, Idiot, Eating

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• We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'

  Bunker Roy

  Motivation, Husband, Inspiration

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• The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period. It is necessary for him to trace the social incidence of the figures that appear in his statement and prove to the general public that his management has not only been profitable in the accounting sense but salutary in terms of popular benefits.

  Colby Mitchell Chester

  Business, Men, Views

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• You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don't look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.

  Tom DeLay

  Running, Jobs, Two

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• Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments.

  Gary Becker

  Training, Analysis, Cost

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