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.
The best thing for your psyche as you try to accomplish anything, really, is to just concentrate on all the little things. And not just as a means to an end, but truly enjoy them.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.
Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience
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