Benefits Quotes - Page 29

Why are we sitting? Why are we practicing? Why are we doing anything? It's not so I can be happy. It's so I can embody the dharma in order to benefit other beings.

The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.

We're not making up merit scores for ourselves. We're making up merit scores so that we can be reborn in a situation where we can really live to benefit ourselves and others.

We are a nation of laws, not a nation that ignores laws if it benefits the Democrat Party.

When all benefits are promised by the state, nobody need feel grateful for them.

There are benefits in the sense that there's still a certain level of confidence. But there are liabilities because you can coordinate and manipulate better as the instruments of oversight are more under your control. You don't have so many rogue operations.

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from their crumb.

To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.

The good thing about playing with other musicians is that it's much easier to make the translation to playing live. It's much more difficult if you're trying to take something you've overdubbed alone on stage. But again, there are some benefits.

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.

At Microsoft, we're investing heavily in security because we want customers to be able to trust their computing experiences, so they can realize the full benefits of the interconnected world we live in.

No one supposed that dinoflagellates might actively kill fish as an evolved response for their own specific advantage, including a potential nutritional benefit for the algal cells. And yet the dinoflagellates do seem to be killing and eating fishes in a manner suggesting active evolution for this most peculiar reversal.

Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal mechanism: differential reproductive success of individuals.

To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

Choosing to be kind rather than to be cruel benefits everyone.

What you do to benefit the lives of others will ultimately also benefit you.

Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.