Yield Quotes - Page 36

• Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Spinning, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Self, Use

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.230, Rajpal & Sons

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• Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Democracy, Obedience

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.25, Rajpal & Sons

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• If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Oil, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1963). “Collected Works”

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• Combining quantum entanglement with wormholes yields mind boggling results about black holes. But I don't trust them until we have a theory of everything which can combine quantum effects with general relativity. i.e. we need to have a full blown string theory resolve this sticky question.

  Michio Kaku

  Mind, Black, Needs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Technology, Land, Worry

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• Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.

  Carl Safina

  Reality, Inquiry, Honest

  Carl Safina (2010). “Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas”, p.440, Macmillan

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• For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

  David Grubbs

  Different, Records, Sides

  Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

  Catherine Marshall

  Prayer, Effort, Our Prayers

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• The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Attention, Pace

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

  Adyashanti

  Creativity, Expression, Awareness

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• Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

  B. C. Forbes

  Effort, Done, Littles

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• The world doesn't yield to us directly, the description of the world stands in between. So, properly speaking, we are always one step removed and our experiences of the world is always a recollection of the experience. We are perennially recollecting the instant that has just happened, just passed. Re recollect, recollect, recollect.

  Carlos Castaneda

  World, Steps, Description

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• One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and highly competitive. My heart drops into my bowels when I enter a bookshop and see how fierce the competition is...There is also a privier reason for pushing on, and that is the hopeless hope that someday that intractable enemy language will yield to the struggle to control it... Mastery never comes, and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting.

  Anthony Burgess

  Struggle, Writing, Heart

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• Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle.

  Dick Morris

  Country, Running, Retirement

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• We invest in undervalued companies that exhibit strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth, which our analysis indicates will persist. Our strategy is to own strong, fundamentally sound companies and to avoid speculative stocks or potential bankruptcies.

  David Dreman

  Strong, Growth, Sound

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• Do not accept principal risk while investing short-term cash: the greedy effort to earn a few extra basis points of yield inevitably leads to the incurrence of greater risk, which increases the likelihood of losses and severe illiquidity at precisely the moment when cash is needed to cover expenses, to meet commitments, or to make compelling long-term investments.

  Seth Klarman

  Commitment, Loss, Long

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• It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.

  Walter Cronkite

  World Government, Order, Law

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Strong, Roots, Differences

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.138, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

  John Calvin

  Flames, Desire, Fans

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.523, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.

  Laozi

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

  Ida B. Wells

  Running, Home, Men

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Work, Loss

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• Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Higher

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• How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.74

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