Gains Quotations

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.

Often confused with shyness, introversion does not imply social reticence or discomfort. Rather than being averse to social engagement, introverts become overwhelmed by too much of it, which explains why the introvert is ready to leave a party after an hour and the extravert gains steam as the night goes on.

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

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

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.

If you reflect often on how His Atonement has changed you, and if you give thanks often, you will find that your witness of Him gains power to touch the hearts of others. When those you invite out of your own testimony feel that witness, they will come to accept Him as their Lord and Savior.

Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without basic research as the wellspring and driving force. But, in this world of ours, often because of material gains and immediate interests, it is easy to neglect basic research. This should be avoided.

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

From what I hear is happening, young Indian boxers have started to do well on the world stage and started to gain the attention of the general audience.

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

The remediableness criterion is an effort to deal symmetrically with real world institutions, both public and private, warts and all. The criterion is this: an extant mode of organization for which no superior feasible form of organization can be described and implemented with expected net gains is presumed to be efficient.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me.

We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.

Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder.

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role

An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

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.

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence.

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.