Gains Quotes - Page 17

• We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, Politics, Economy

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• With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Meditation, Mind

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Profound, Desire

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• There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which had much better been left to another Government agency or the Congress to attain. The country could have had lower interest rates without sacrificing anything else.

  Wright Patman

  Country, Sacrifice, Agency

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• In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by a contract of partnership, as is already being tried in various ways to the no small gain both of the wage-earners and of the employers. In this way wage-earners are made sharers in some sort in the ownership, or the management, or the profits.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Politics, Way

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• The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.

  Pope Pius XI

  Children, Ambition, Greed

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from the tedium and fatigue of purely mechanical toil, for by this means he gains leisure for the thought necessary to working out his designs, and for the finer touches that the hand alone can give. So long as he remains master of his machinery it will serve him well, and his power of artistic expression will be freed rather than stifled by turning over to it work it is meant to do.

  Gustav Stickley

  Mean, Expression, Hands

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• There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Rooms

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• An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Jobs

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• Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Mistake

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• You work many hours. It is the major activity of your life. You can lose a lot of energy or gain a lot of energy from it. Put your full attention into it and do a good job, because it is part of your impeccability.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Jobs, Buddhism

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• It is necessary to do a systems analysis of your life. Look at where you gain power and where you lose power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Analysis, Looks, Personal Power

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• I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Waiting, Balance

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• Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Self, Issues

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• There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Loss, Two Sides, Energy

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• We may have a tiny little room that we rent, and if we keep it clean and it's impeccable, then we gain a power from that.

  Frederick Lenz

  May, Littles, Rooms

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• Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Finding Yourself, Gaining Power

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• You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Energy, Crowds, Gaining Power

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• You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Feel Good, Gaining Power

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Over You, Energy, Levels

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• We want to be all things, not just to gain power over things - how infantile!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Want, Infantile

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• The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence. And without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Essentials

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• To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Block, Athlete

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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• Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.

  Alexander Meiklejohn

  Wise, Loss, Safety

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