“Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.” MenDoeMatterHandsFormValuesProcessResultsEconomicObjectsMaterialsBenefitsTransformationProductionsHandleContactProducersConsumersLocationAvailability Author:Thomas Sowell
“We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.” ProcessGrowthTechnologyBenefitsResponseCustomersAggressionCurvesSteepProcurementPositive Response Author:Charles R. Jackson
“The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.” PeopleThinkingShouldMindHumansMeanDreamNationsProcessTermAbilityDecisionGreaterCostBenefitsIntelligentInfiniteDevelopingHuman MindFulfilledLifelongVigorHopes And DreamsInfinite Potential Author:John F. Kennedy
“(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.” HumansEarthProcessWaterCommonGenerationsAirHabitPeriodsBenefitsResourcesDestructionDrinkingTechniqueLandscapeStreamsDividedPollutionFillingChokeHabitatDepositsDrinking WaterVegetation Author:Lewis Mumford
“The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.” PeopleGivingMayPersonsFacesProcessSidesTroubleSucceedGiving UpBenefitsFindingsOvercomingPressureAdversityTrialsBitterBest ThingsComing OutSweetnessPersevere Author:John C. Maxwell
“Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.” SchoolFormLawLife IsCertainThreeEnergyProcessPayCarPositionTaxesBenefitsComputerUselessFacultyTransformedQuantityFringeInaccessibleMetabolismThermodynamics Author:Seth Lloyd
“If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.” IfsMindArtSuccessLawProcessCareersBuddhismBenefitsComputerEnlightenmentMedicineRelatedComputer Science Author:Frederick Lenz
“Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.” PeopleWayTwoFoundProcessPersonalityBenefitsConsciousCatSensitiveMutualAssociationImmenseTwo WaysGreat PersonMutual BenefitGreat Personality Author:Patricia Moyes
“Never hesitate to show your own staff that you need help. They need to be reminded how important they are to the process. In life and in business, we rely on each other to be responsible for individual tasks that benefit everyone. People sometimes forget how much interdependence there really is in a successful business. Learn the art of asking for help to empower and motivate others, and you will have learned a very powerful management strategy.” PeopleNeedsArtImportantSometimesHelpingShowsIndividualProcessForgetPowerfulSuccessfulBenefitsTasksAskingResponsibleManagementStrategyRelyEmpoweringStaffVery PowerfulBeing ResponsibleInterdependenceSuccessful BusinessNeed HelpAsking For Help Author:Georgette Mosbacher
“We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe - and would benefit the vast majority - are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.” GivingDoneActionPoliticalProcessChanceEconomyMediaConflictBenefitsMajorsCapitalismMajorityClimate ChangeStuckMinoritiesElitesCatastropheThreateningOutletsEmissions Author:Naomi Klein
“Many of the most important principles of intelligence cannot by taught at universities, from books, or through other temporal learning processes. Often these great principles are learned from afflictions, tribulations, and other mortal experiences. All that we learn in this manner will benefit us not only in this life but also in the next, for 'whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection'.” ImportantBookNextProcessPrinciplesTaughtBenefitsAdversityUniversityMortalsThis LifeResurrectionAfflictionLearning ProcessTribulation Author:Monte J. Brough
“You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes and you're hearing him call himself out on his bad behavior. You don't have the benefit of that narrator in a movie. What you see a character do, very often, becomes that much more important because you don't have him editorializing it for you.” ImportantCharacterProcessCan DoNovelHeroBehaviorBenefitsHearingNarratorsThought ProcessBad Behavior Author:Jonathan Tropper
“One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.” PeopleDoneSocialProcessGreaterCostActivityBenefitsTradeCertaintyProbabilityLabelingSortingTrade Offs Author:Thomas Sowell
“I suppose that one of the greatest benefits of studying Isaiah is the process of studying Isaiah. Searching the scriptures puts you in a pondering, searching frame of mind in which inspiration can come, allowing you to find ways to apply scriptural truths to your life.” WayMindInspirationProcessStudyBenefitsScriptureAllowingPonderingFrame Of Mind Author:John Bytheway
“With these 11 million people here illegally, let's have them registered, know who they are, those that are her paying taxes and not taking government benefits should begin a process towards application for citizenship.” PeopleKnowsShouldGovernmentProcessMillionsTaxesBenefitsApplicationCitizenshipPaying Taxes Author:Mitt Romney
“Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.” DifferentProcessGenerationsInfluenceBenefitsOrganizationFunctionIntelligentInnovationStrategyFactorsRegionsUnitsDifferent Generations Author:David Livermore
“India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit.” AmericaProcessGrowthBenefitsIndiaRate Author:Manmohan Singh
“There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.” WayFirstsPersonsFactsCausesProcessMoralProgressBenefitsTestsHarmNarrativeFormulasDistributionMartyrEvaluateInvolvingFirst PersonScientific Truth Author:Catherine Wilson
“The corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds. The task of cleaning the corridors of power (or cleaning the lobby of lobbies) was important so that the government machinery itself is improved. This process of correction and cleaning took quite some time but it will provide long-term benefits in the form of clean and fair governance.” KindLongImportantGovernmentFormProcessTermBenefitsFairsTasksCleanVariousLong TermCleaningMachineryGovernanceCorrectionsCorridorsDelhi Author:Narendra Modi
“Just through the process of trying to make the living and the dead feel real, all these little benefits came out. And these benefits turned out to be much more articulate statements of what I really believe. And somehow they were more convincing because they were arrived at at such length.” FeelsTryingBelieveLittlesRealProcessBenefitsStatementsLengthConvincing Author:George Saunders
“Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.” GivingShouldWritingChildrenMatterEyeRunningAgeGrowsProcessLevelsViewsPartyLaughingDyingReadyBenefitsAgingRidiculousOld AgeGentleRestaurantsGuestsUsersAirportsDisadvantagesCocktailsWheelchairsIndignityCocktail PartiesStairwaysRestroomAging ProcessSlapstick Author:John Mortimer
“But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.” PeopleSaidGovernmentPoliticalProcessRiskEssentialsBenefitsArgumentWorriedEducateStressedMisled Author:Carl Sagan
“Try to let go of the idea that you need to do yoga perfectly in order to see its benefits. Rather, let it be a process of waking up to who you really are. If you do this, you will know joy. And that joy will be your gift to a world that very much needs our healing.” IfsKnowsWorldNeedsTryingIdeasJoyOrderProcessHealingLetting GoBenefitsYogaWake UpWaking Author:Darren Main