Gains Quotes - Page 23

• As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

  Todd Solondz

  Sex, Matter, Pounds

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• I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Country, Osmosis, Buttons

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• Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Journey

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• As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mind

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• With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Meditation

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• The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Opportunity

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Motivational, Thinking, Discovery

  Claude M. Bristol (1948). “Magic of Believing”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

  Gina McCarthy

  Oil, Regulation, Natural

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• You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.

  Trevanian

  Fall, Errors, Years

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• The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.

  James Morcan

  Running, Mean, Reality

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• Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

  Erica Jong

  Loss, Thinking, Loving Someone

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.

  Richard Holbrooke

  People, Enemy, Wish

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• Gain knowledge. It's valuable.

  Daniel Norris

  Valuable

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2015

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• Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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• You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Exercise, Mindfulness

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• What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal knowledge will stay with you from one incarnation to another.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stones, Lifetime, Reincarnation

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• Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Victory, Weakness

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• The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nothing To Lose, Loses

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• Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Effort, Spirit

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wings, Luck, Bidding

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• An evil gain equals a loss.

  Publilius Syrus

  Loss, Evil

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 306, Maxims, 1922.

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• Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Progress, Granted

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Hands

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.

  William James

  Exercise, Men, Giving

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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