Gains Quotes
Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.
If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.
It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.
I believe in God.....I gain strength from God. I believe in Jehovah, God, very much.....I believe in God and love God.
Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.
During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
Being open to the concept that globalisation is only 10-20% complete leaves room for some expectation that there might be more gains to be achieved from further integration.
No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.
I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.
Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems.
When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.
Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.
The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.
Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.
I feel comfortable, I'm definitely feeling challenged but with each day I gain more experience. I'm just trying to improve each day.
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.
We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.
A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.
The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.
A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges
Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.
The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.
we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.
You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
Sometimes, when a person gains a lot of success at a very young age, they become targets, and it's really easy to follow the crowds and not make independent decisions based on truly how you feel.
The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.
If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas