Yield Quotes - Page 37

• I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

  Plato

  Teaching, Irresistible

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.370, Booklassic

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• The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.

  Toby Hemenway

  Garden, Air, People

  Toby Hemenway (2009). “Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture”, p.175, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

  Zane Grey

  Life, Suicide, Dark

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• I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.

  George Washington

  Hope, Peace, Retirement

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1796). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”

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• I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, War, Mistake

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work, willing to head and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: 'Use power to help people." For we know that we are given power, not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. Help us to remember it Lord, Amen.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Prayer, Father

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Powerful, Reality, Design

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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 truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

  Robert Cialdini

  Finals, Opponents, Enough

  Robert B. Cialdini (1985). “Influence: Science and Practice”, Scott Foresman

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• When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room -- on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage

  Daniel Gilbert

  Making Love, Hearing, Rooms

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

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• And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy

  John Hagee

  Country, Military, Iran

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 5, 2007.

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• Spirituality yields two fruits. The first in inspiration to know what to do. The second is power, or the capacity to do it. These two capacities come together. That's why Nephi could say, 'I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded' (1 Nephi 3:7). He knew the spiritual laws upon which inspiration and power are based. Yes, God answers prayer and gives us spiritual direction when we live obediently and exercise the required faith in Him.

  Richard G. Scott

  Spiritual, Prayer, Inspiration

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• No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

  Richard G. Scott

  Exercise, Blessing, Agency

  "To Help a Loved One in Need" by Richard G. Scott, www.lds.org. May 1988.

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• There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.

  Henry Ford

  Vegetables, Years, Alcohol

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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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• Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome.  Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Kindness, Compassion, Greed

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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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• Only a new seed will yield a new crop.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Crops, Seeds

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• Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Looks, Sun

  Yoshikawa, Eiji (1989). “Heike Story, The”, p.146, Tuttle Publishing

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• The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.

  David F. Houston

  Light, Fields, Beans

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• There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Sweet, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Twelfth-night. Winter's tale. Macbeth. King John”, p.519

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• What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

  Susan Griffin

  Insight, Aesthetic, Miraculous

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.191, Open Road Media

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• I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Country, Real, Home

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