Gains Quotes - Page 16

• the Americans must have the Almighty dollar. Their cupidity renders them daring and indifferent to everything else. It is nothing to them to expose their lives and those of others in order to gain money. How materialistic these people are!

  Theodore Guerin

  Order, People, Dollars

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

  Mark Kingwell

  World, Danger

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.165, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

  Robert Kuttner

  Moving, Laissez Faire, Pure

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.85, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.

  Bill Mollison

  Real, Book, People

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

  Flora Thompson

  Art, Ocean, Pot

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.

  Francisco Varela

  Strong, Loss, Views

  "From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being" by D. Rudrauf, Biol Res 36: 27-65, 2003.

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• All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.

  Francisco Varela

  Pain, Loss, Self

  "The Embodied Mind". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 63, 1991.

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• With the marketplace urging parents to buy all manner of things to make their babies ‘smart,’ Gallagher’s book offers parents a view based in science on how much babies really know and figure out on their own.  Parents will have fun with this book and gain new respect and awe for their babies’ amazing capabilities.

  Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

  Baby, Fun, Smart

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• You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

  Marshall Sylver

  Responsibility, Over You, Moments

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• How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I had come from nowhere and had no history, so I fully accepted my circumstances-even the initial murk and mess of the Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View-with equanimity.

  Eben Alexander

  Eye, Self, Views

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

  John Muir

  Views, Perfect, Shelves

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• Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Trying, Rewards

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• When pain ends, gain ends too.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Ends

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.341

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• If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify it.

  Peter Cohan

  Suffering, Want, Too Much

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• In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

  Seth Klarman

  Loss, Risk, Aversion

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• There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.

  Mark Cuban

  Opportunity, Effort, Littles

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• If I work hard and am rewarded, then I haven't really gained anything. It has been a trade: I've put in, and I've gotten back. Only if I am rewarded without having done anything have I actually come out ahead. The best way to gain the most is to do nothing.

  John S. Hall

  Hard Work, Done, Way

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Education, Book, Heart

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

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• A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Past, Technology

  Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

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• Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Success, Safety

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt”, p.220

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• Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Compassion, Giving, Energy

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• If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Special, Use, Want

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• To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mistake, Buddhism

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• We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Balance

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• And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Joy, Delight

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