Top 1200 Personal Gain Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

I can only speak from my personal journey and my personal struggles which are completely different from other individuals but if I can slightly help someone else understand themselves, then that's perfect. Because I only make music, there's so much emotion in the music itself that I hope people can tap into and feel the same way I feel when I listen to it.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.

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

The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, among the world's richest men, believes his personal fortune can erase the liberty of every American who would exercise the right to keep and bear arms. He plans liquidation of our rights a step-at-a-time - spending millions of dollars of his bottomless personal fortune at a time.

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.

If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.

We do not gain or surrender our personhood as we age. We live one life from conception to death.

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism.

No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.

I don't care what the press is about a person that I'm working with. I care about how they come to work every day. I don't care who broke up with who or who is sleeping with who or who went out where. I don't care what you do with your personal life. It's when people take their personal lives into a space where it affects their performance at work, that's when I would stop taking someone seriously.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

Where you live is important. It is where you dream. You lose or gain a tremendous amount of energy there.

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate.

For me, when I do a show is to make sure that I gain some new people.

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

To be an effective leader, you must be trustworthy. If people don’t trust you, they won’t follow you. And if they won’t follow you, your organization won’t meet its goals. Sandy Allgeier explains that personal credibility comes down to a simple truth: It’s not about the type of person you are; it’s about the types of things you do. If you want to be a great leader, read The Personal Credibility Factor.

There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there.

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

My Instagram has personal things, like pictures of my home, but generally it's my voice, and that's a public thing. Using my Instagram posts in my art is not about taking my personal Instagram and making it public; it's about understanding and challenging the notion of these free platforms that encourage self-promotion and understanding what they are technically and culturally.

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

With an open mind, we gain insight into ideas and expressions that we may have overlooked or not noticed at all.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

There is good science you can do in space. There is stuff there you cannot do on Earth and we can gain understanding from it.

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

Yeah, I was going to have no features on 'Bulletproof.' But I ended up putting Gucci Mane on it. That's just my partner. He's just one of my personal friends. It ain't no different for him from my homeboys in Memphis. I just have a real personal relationship. I met Gucci Mane through my partner Drumma Boy, the producer.

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.

We Virginians do not go to the storied shrines of the past to do worship but rather to gain inspiration.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.