#herd

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. ↗

— James Hogg

#land #open #scotland #shepherd #whole

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions. ↗

— James Hogg

#different #discovered #duty #eagerness #evolutions

Moses was getting to know God as Jehovah-Rohi, his Shepherd. Like a shepherd, God would feed and lead Moses as he led the people of Israel. “I will be with you,” God said earlier. What music that must have been to Moses’ ears! He took this promise by faith and thus was able to step confidently into his life purpose. “He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young…” –Isaiah 40:11. ↗

— Beth Willis Miller

#moses #shepherd #age

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#capital #capital investment #cattle #cow #fertile

The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay. ↗

— Troy Perry

#i #knows #lord #shepherd

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#economics #herd-behavior #behavior

Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#church #crossed #divided #flock #had

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#relationships #shepherd #sport #wolf #art

The thing about the Lexington International Bank ladder was that it was very long, and climbing it was very exhausting, and so Andrew Brown didn't have a lot of time to think about whether he really wanted to get to the top of it—and besides, since so many other people were climbing too, the view from the top must be worth it. So he kept going. He worked hard. He put his heart and mind and soul into it. There was an opening for a position half a rung higher than he already was. With a promotion, he might get two hours a week of a secretary's time. He'd go to more important meetings, with more senior people, and have the opportunity to impress them, and if he did he might be promoted again and then... well, of course eventually he'd be running the whole office. It's important to have a dream: otherwise you might notice where you really are. ↗

— Naomi Alderman

#dreams #employment #herd-mentality #promotion #purpose

I had a nightmare about the Averys’ sweet-tempered German shepherd, Ina. In the dream, as I was sitting on the floor in the Averys’ living room, the dog walked up to me and began to insult me. She said I was a frivolous, cynical, attention-seeking “fag” whose entire life had been phony. I answered her frivolously and cynically and chucked her under the chin. She grinned at me with malice, as if to make clear that she understood me to the core. Then she sank her teeth into my arm. As I fell over backward, she went for my throat. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#german-shepherd #dreams