“If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is more valuable than soil; it means simply that we do not know how to value the soil. In its complexity and its potential longevity, the soil exceeds our comprehension; we do not know how to place a just market value on it, and we will never learn how. Its value is inestimable; we must value it, beyond whatever price we put on it, by respecting it.” IfsKnowsHumansMeanDoeValuesKnow HowEconomyLandFieldsValuableComplexitySoilLongevityExceedComprehensionSquash Author:Wendell Berry
“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.” PeopleIfsShouldMeanSelfEnjoyPrayerEmotionalPrayingEnlightenmentSatisfactionObviousValuableVanityRitualBeneficialIndulgenceStimulusObservanceSelf IndulgenceFixation Book:Seeker After Truth Source: Seeker After Truth
“Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.” HeartMeanCompanyValuableEmployeeGutsAssets Author:Carlos Ghosn
“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?” MenMindMeanImportantCharacterSeemsPleasureResultsOpinionStudyGreaterGainsValuableGuestsBiographiesAcquaintanceElevation Book:Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete