“However, narrating what you remember, telling it to someone, does something else. The more a person recalls a memory, the more they change it. Each time they put it into language, it shifts. The more you describe a memory, the more likely it is that you are making a story that fits your life, resolves the past, creates a fiction you can live with. It’s what writers do. Once you open your mouth, you are moving away from the truth of things. According to neuroscience. The safest memories are locked in the brains of people who can’t remember. Their memories remain the closest replica of actual events. Underwater. Forever.”
Source: The Chronology of Water
“Think of any product or service and beneath the surface, you’ll see it’s just a value exchange.”
Source: Business for Beginners: Getting Started
“People have to be able to access your businesses product or service. They have to notice your product or service among alternatives. And they have to feel an authentic connection.”
Source: Business for Beginners: Getting Started
“If someone does not perceive a product or service as one that adds value to their life, they will not buy it – even if that thing actually will provide value.”
Source: Business for Beginners: Getting Started
“Catcallers offer a valuable service to the community, and I'm proud to say I donate my time and energy to such a charitable cause. If you need me I'll be whistling on the sidewalk.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“The only way for a business to survive the constant and persistent changes that take place through time, is to be anchored to something that is changeless and timeless — and that something is the mindset of creating value for others.”
Source: Business for Beginners: Getting Started
“Jesus taught us to be value adders.”
Source: 4 Business Lessons From Jesus: A businessmans interpretation of Jesus' teachings, applied in a business context.
“self-contentment is as little a standard for that to which it relates as it's absence is an argument against the value of a thing.”
Source: The Will to Power
“Your life is more valuable than all the precious stones in this world. Realize your own value and do something of value.”
Source: The Extensive Philosophy of Life: Daily Quotes
“Now I was defined by the only One who could ascribe definite, concrete, objective value to an object, the only One whose opinion wasn’t subjective and fleeting, the only One whose existence wasn’t slowly passing away, and the only One who wouldn’t ever let me down. His words had always been true; the only difference was that now I trusted them enough to build my life on them.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose