A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.
Interpretation
People tend to focus on what they find valuable and worthwhile.
This quote highlights the notion that individuals are more inclined to pay attention and invest their efforts in matters that they perceive as significant or beneficial. When something holds value for a person, whether it's a personal project, a relationship, or a business venture, they are more likely to put in the necessary time and energy to nurture it.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about entrepreneurship.
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.
I never waste time looking back.
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