What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Many things deemed useless may hold value we have not yet found.
- In plain terms
- Don't dismiss things too quickly.
- What can you take from it?
- Stay open to discovery.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What have you dismissed?
Another view
Some things are truly worthless.
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