Quotes About Benefit

I am reminded of the belief of the ancient Sephardic doctor Isrealicus: that food must really be delicious if both disposition and body are to benefit.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

Risks and benefits always go hand in hand. The reason that a project is full of risk is that it leads you into uncharted waters. It stretches your capability, which means that if you pull it off successfully, it's going to drive your competition batty. The ultimate coup is to stretch your own capability to a point beyond the competition's ability to respond. This is what gives you competitive advantage and helps you build a distinct brand in the market.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.

If you don't like my words, you are at liberty to leave at any time, Master assured me. I want nothing from you but your own improvement. Stay only if you feel benefited.

But there are many kinds of tigers; some roam in jungles of human desires. No spiritual benefit accrues by knocking beasts unconscious. Rather be victor over the inner prowlers." "May we hear, sir, how you changed from a tamer of wild tigers to a tamer of wild passions?

Talking in terms of the other person's interests pays off for both parties.

individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.

A show of interest, as with every other principle of human relations, must be sincere. It must pay off not only for the person showing the interest, but for the person receiving the attention. It is a two-way street—both parties benefit.

Love means will-to-good, willing the benefit of what or who is loved. We may say we love chocolate cake, but we don't. Rather, we want to eat it. That is desire, not love. In our culture we have a great problem distinguishing between love and desire, but it is essential that we do so.

We all benefit from a sense of contact with divinity… even if it is only imagined.

all the good things of this world are no farther good to us, than as they are for our use: and that whatever we may heap up indeed to give to others, we enjoy as much as we can use, and no more.

secrets should never be opened without evident utility. It could be of no manner of use to me or her to communicate

Is it just for me, or for others? For the benefit of the few, or the many? For now, or for the future?

To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil—not the world - Ishmael

Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil—not the world.

We walk around every day not knowing the exact level of risk and benefit associated with most of our actions, yet it remains our responsibility to decide what's worth pursuing.

Communism and free-market capitalism both are modern versions of oligarchy. In their propaganda, both justify violent means by good ends, which always are put beyond reach by the violence of the means. The trick is to define the end vaguely-the greatest good of the greatest number or the benefit of the many- and keep it at a distance.