Benefits Quotes - Page 28

• Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face

  Phil Harding

  Responsibility, Land, Important

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• The UK still has time to accelerate the take-up of renewable energy and put the nation on a path towards clean energy that is cheaper, stable and more sustainable. We have a stark choice: We can stay stuck in the last century's boom and bust approach to our economy in the way we consume energy and resources, or create a sustainable, stable and renewable energy infrastructure with the long term environmental and employment benefits that ensue

  Phil Harding

  Long, Choices, Environmental

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• By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

  Albert Ellis

  Failure, Past, Errors

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• Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Conservative, Reasonable

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.335

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• ... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

  Douglas J. Moo

  Needs, Serious, Helping

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• I don't benefit by minimizing his accomplishments Andre Ward.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Accomplishment, Fighter

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• Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact, many of them are getting larger because they can benefit from economies of scale.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Mind, Facts

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• Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Honey, Gains, Bees

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2009). “The Essential Writings of Machiavelli”, p.456, Modern Library

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• . . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things.

  Laozi

  Attitude, Existence, Relate

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• In daily practice, reflect on the benefits of love, compassion and kindness, then reflect on the disadvantages of anger. Such continuous contemplation, the growing appreciation of love, has the effect of reducing our inclination towards hatred and increasing our respect for love. By this means even anger can be diminished.

  Dalai Lama

  Appreciation, Inspirational Love, Kindness

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• The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Animal, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.33, Penguin

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• Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don’t.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Rights

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• Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.

  Joseph Pilates

  Real, Exercise, Firsts

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• There are 64 divine mother impulses which govern the subtle creation. These are responsible for restoring all earthly and spiritual benefits. They are simply part of one's awakened consciousness. These nine nights are celebrated to rekindle those divine impulses and celebrate the innermost depth of our lives

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mother, Spiritual, Night

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• I believe in censorship when it benefits me.

  Howard Stern

  Believe, Censorship, I Believe

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• We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

  Alan Greenspan

  Guarantees, Investing, Cash

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• To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Attitude, Envy

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• The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

  Brian Eno

  Skills, Issues, Judgement

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• We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

  Dalai Lama

  Needs, Our Actions, Helping

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• Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Acceptance, Expectations, Peaceful

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• Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development. And so on. But, since we're effectively talking about "where we live," good sense and good business and "good" engagement throughout the "supply chain," from vendor's vendor to customer's customer, we would benefit mightily-including on the P & L-if we insisted (!) on: "Pleasant." "Caring." "Engaged."

  Tom Peters

  Stars, Caring, Talking

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• In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

  Rick Santorum

  Government, Politics, Republican

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• If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

  Grace Napolitano

  Aggravation, Investment, Checks

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• I have been 'diving within' through the Transcendental Meditation technique for over 30 years. It has changed my life, my world. I am not alone. Millions of other people of all ages, religions, and walks of life practice the technique and enjoy incredible benefits.

  David Lynch

  Years, Practice, People

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• Another qualification of success is that we not only bring harmonious and beneficial results to ourselves, but also share those benefits with others.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Share, Results, Qualifications

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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