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Quotes About Benefit

You are getting the benefit of all the work you've ever done up until now, which has put you in the place where you're reading this bizarre book about a peculiar topic that most of the population couldn't care less about.
~ Ram Dass
Noi, pamantenii, avem talentul de a distruge tot ce e mare si frumos. Singurul motiv pentru care n-am instalat tarabe cu crenvursti in templul egiptean de la Karnak este pentru ca nu avea vad si nu oferea nici un beneficiu comercial deosebit.
~ Ray Bradbury
worth the candle.
~ Joseph Conrad
aunque la economía de goteo hacia abajo no funciona, la economía de goteo hacia arriba sí puede funcionar: todo el mundo —incluso los de arriba— podría beneficiarse dando más a los de abajo y a los de en medio.
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
our ability to enter into cooperative relations with one another is based upon the rational insight that we can all be better off if we follow some mutually agreed-upon rules.22
~ Joseph Heath
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
~ Joseph Heller
Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Yossarian knew what he meant. "That's not what I meant," Doc Daneeka said as Yossarian began scratching his back.
~ Joseph Heller
You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Yossarian knew what he meant. "That's not what I meant," Doc Daneeka said as Yossarian began scratching his back.
~ Joseph Heller
Your subconscious mind works twenty-four hours a day and makes provisions for your benefit, pouring all the fruit of your habitual thinking into your lap.
~ Joseph Murphy
Someone else's loss is my chocolatey goodness
~ Joss Whedon
Now that so many years have passed, now that I remember with the benefit of an understanding I didn't then have, I think of that conversation and it seems implausible that its importance didn't hit me in the face. (And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually exist: all is memory, this sentence that I just wrote is already a memory, this word is a memory that you, reader, just read).
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Children from a big family have the benefit of a certain amount of neglect.
~ Wallace Stegner
Do-gooders fail to realize that most good is not done in the name of good but done in the name of self-interest.
~ Walter E. Williams
Being read is a fringe benefit, and being read with understanding is a form of grace.
~ Walter Kaufmann
Price is what you pay and value is what you get.
~ Warren Buffett
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
~ Warren Buffett
When Vul and Pashler let three weeks pass before asking their subjects the same question again, the benefit rose to one-third the value of a second opinion.
~ Daniel Kahneman
En la economía de la acción, el esfuerzo es un coste, y la adquisición de habilidad viene determinada por el balance de costes y beneficios.10 La pereza está profundamente arraigada en nuestra naturaleza.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The best wines are produced when the summer is warm and dry, which makes the Bordeaux wine industry a likely beneficiary of global warming.
~ Daniel Kahneman
If you come upon an observation that does not seem to fit the model, you assume that there must be a perfectly good explanation that you are somehow missing. You give the theory the benefit of the doubt, trusting the community of experts who have accepted it.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could benefit from having read it.
~ Daniel Kahneman
and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit
~ Daniel Kahneman
and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit from the informed opinions of others. Many
~ Daniel Kahneman
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
~ Daniel Klein