Top 1200 Personal Gain Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body.

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

I don't want to get too much on the football side and gain weight, so I'm as fast on the field.

It is a unique challenge for a woman to demonstrate that they can lead, that they will be strong, that they can handle crisis, and that they gain respect.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

In affirming God to be supreme in all things, the classical theist describes him in a number of ways. He is perfect, loving, good, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, timeless, transcendent, personal, immutable and immanent. But how can this be? Is it really possible to be both eternal and timeless? Immutable and immanent? Personal and at the same time transcendent?

When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level.

Music is very personal. It is not objective. We're not talking about how tight they were. How famous they are. How rich they are. For me it's like food. You taste it, and you either love it, or you think it's boring, or it tastes bad, which is three reactions I have with music, just like food, it's very personal.

I've got to watch what I eat. Seems like if I even look hard at food I gain weight.

I know that if you don't have Christ in your life then all the hope you have and the greatest thing you can gain is what you get from this earth.

People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.

Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

It is the universe where all rock players live- we all use distortion, overdrive, gain and saturation. I call it 'fuzz.'

My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

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

My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

The Founding Fathers were more deists. If you had to categorize them as anything. There was some sort of moving prime force. But it's an impersonal force. Some people call it Nature. Certainly not this personal god who you have a personal relationship with, who listens to your prayers and answers them, or doesn't. You know, not the silly stuff that most Americans believe because we're such a dumb nation.

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.

All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Whether its Republicans or Democrats, if they try to leverage the intelligence community for political gain, I won't allow it.

Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service.

My personal life was my personal life and no one's business.

I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that's success. You define that as success, then that's success. Success is not a general thing. It's a personal thing. It's a personal attribute.

Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits one from a particular author, whether it's Kierkegaard, Heidegger, or whoever. Nevertheless, it does seem to me that even the more religious parts of the authorship can offer significant insights into the meaning of the human condition to those who can't then say that, e.g., they believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and their personal Saviour.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.

You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.

I think the political is personal, and the personal is political.

By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.

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

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly.

The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.

Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center.

Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

The harder I train every day on the track and in the gym, the more trust I gain in myself.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

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