Gains Quotes - Page 9

• The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

  Sara Davidson

  Laughter, Pain, Distance

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• We are delighted to be working with PCG to continue to develop professionalism in the IT industry, and making BCS membership more accessible to PCG's IT members enabling them to gain industry-recognised endorsement of their credentials. BCS membership supports career development at every stage, offering a wealth of IT industry information, and access to an unrivalled network of IT professionals to help secure that next job or contract.

  David A. Clarke, Jr

  Jobs, Careers, Offering

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• Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.

  Giovanni Bisignani

  Oil, Cost, Return

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• Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Wisdom, Loss, Understanding

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• Master data management is a discipline that goes hand in hand with information governance. Forward-thinking organizations are instituting processes to gain agreement on roles, responsibilities, policies, and procedures surrounding the maintenance of a single view of the entities needed for conducting business and measuring its performance,.

  Henry M. Morris

  Responsibility, Thinking, Views

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• I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

  Cornelia Parker

  Beauty, Loss, Want

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• In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.

  Graham Sutherland

  Sacrifice, Order, Risk

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• Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

  Robert Genn

  Knowledge, Artist, Guru

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• The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Victory

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• What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought

  Max Planck

  Mean, Science, Law

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• What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and receive the Bread of Life; you give a transitory good and receive an everlasting one. You will receive it back, a hundred times more than you offered.

  Thomas of Villanova

  Faith, Inspiration, Bread Of Life

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• The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, War, Inferiors

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• We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  People, Trying, Way

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• We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

  Walter Cronkite

  Driving, Circulation, Findings

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• There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Lying, Space, Important

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• Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.

  Baldassare Castiglione

  Mistake, Fall, Thinking

  Baldassare Castiglione (2012). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Let me give you a definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father, passing the angels who stand as sentinels, being enabled to give them the key words, the signs and tokens, pertaining to the holy Priesthood, and gain your eternal exaltation in spite of earth and hell

  Brigham Young

  Father, Angel, Keys

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• If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

  Brigham Young

  Reflection, Firsts, Judgment

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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

  Douglas Southall Freeman

  Inspiration, Past, Shrines

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• I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

  Walt Disney

  Business, Profit, Personal Gain

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.

  John Muir

  Dust, Solitude, Yosemite

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.350, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

  Steve Jobs

  Nothing To Lose, Colonization, Tranquil

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• Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Criminals, Littles

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Failure, Men, Humanity

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• Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fate, Luck, Difficult

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.470, Harvard University Press

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