Gains Quotes - Page 15

• Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

  Robert Genn

  Knowledge, Artist, Guru

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• The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, War, Inferiors

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• We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  People, Trying, Way

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• We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

  Walter Cronkite

  Driving, Circulation, Findings

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• There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Lying, Space, Important

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• Let me give you a definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens, pertaining to the holy Priesthood, and gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell

  Brigham Young

  Father, Angel, Keys

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• If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

  Brigham Young

  Reflection, Firsts, Judgment

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

  Walt Disney

  Business, Profit, Personal Gain

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.

  John Muir

  Dust, Solitude, Yosemite

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.350, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Failure, Men, Humanity

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• Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fate, Luck, Difficult

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.470, Harvard University Press

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• An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open up your aura and increase it. You will move into a higher plane of knowledge. You will gain a new view of the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Moving, Views

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• An enlightened teacher teaches you how to gain power. They give you power. They teach you how to shape it so that it becomes an instrument of beauty and not an instrument of unhappiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Giving, Shapes

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• What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Land, Water

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• You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.

  Amy Dickinson

  Hurt, Women, Giving

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• In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Balance, Mindfulness

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• The psychic world is a dimensional plane that you can gain access to. It is a dimension of feeling and clear seeing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Feelings, Dimensions

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• Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.

  Court McGee

  Progress Not Perfection, Mma, Bases

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• Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

  Hsing Yun

  Kindness, Compassion, Meditation

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• It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

  Dan Ariely

  Football, Cheating, Motivation

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• Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

  Jay Gould

  Be Careful, Ability, Carried Away

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• I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain.

  Theophilus London

  Years, Different, Hats

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• Every time you play a hand differently from the way you would have played it if you could see all your opponents' cards, they gain; and every time you play your hand the same way you would have played it if you could see all their cards, they lose. Conversely, every time opponents play their hands differently from the way they would have if they could see all your cards, you gain; and every time they play their hands the same way they would have played if they could see all your cards, you lose.

  David Sklansky

  Hands, Play, Cards

  "The Theory of Poker". Book by David Sklansky, www.businessinsider.com. 1999.

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• I also visited several healing meetings... and became angry with what appeared to be the manipulation of people for the material gains of the faith healer... Dressing like sideshow barkers. Pushing people over and calling it the power of God. And money - they were always asking for more, leading people to believe that if they gave they would be healed.

  John Wimber

  Believe, Healing, People

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• God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think.

  Iain Pears

  Book, Thinking, Suffering

  Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.167, Penguin

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