Yield Quotes - Page 11

• no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Time, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

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• I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

  Ariana Franklin

  Bed, Admiration

  Ariana Franklin (2008). “The Serpent's Tale”, p.406, Penguin

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• Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

  James Keller

  Hopeful, Doe, Cherish

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• Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being routed and overrun, and then to dredge not merely from one’s own bowels or guts but from one’s discipline and training the presence of mind not to panic, not to yield to the possession of despair, but instead to complete those homely acts of order which Dienekes had ever declared the supreme accomplishment of the warrior: to perform the commonplace under far-from-commonplace conditions.

  Steven Pressfield

  Heart, Warrior, Fire

  Steven Pressfield (1999). “Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae”, Bantam

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• 'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!

  Hafez

  Fate, Destiny, Woe

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• Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

  Paul Brunton

  Mirrors, Ego, Secret

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

  Johann Arndt

  Men, Giving, Tree

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

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• At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Comfort, Narrative

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• No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

  Brad Henry

  Community, Foundation, Return

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• Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

  David F. Houston

  Weight, Acres, Succeed

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• When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Mean, Bills

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• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  Immanuel Kant

  Intuition, Elements, Way

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.61, Read Books Ltd

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• No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

  Mary Leakey

  Stones, Information, Bows And Arrows

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• America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.

  Eric Liu

  Usa, America, Likes

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• You would expect to see that first in high-yield [debt], but it was in the most liquid thing in the world. So that, I think - it's a little bit of a warning that we've got to be prepared and just be careful.

  Jamie Dimon

  Thinking, Debt, Warning

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Blessed, Blood, Doe

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• In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country.

  Gerald Horne

  Country, Rights, Order

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

  Daniel Goleman

  Data, Mind, Measurement

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• Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.

  Gary Shilling

  Country, Lows, Higher

  Source: markets.businessinsider.com

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• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

  Gary Becker

  Interesting, Analysis, Systematic

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• At a glance, addiction, sex work, mad passion, and all forms of extreme behavior might look like pushing or trying to obliterate boundaries when, more honestly, they are a search for them. I want to find the endpoint, the place where my own powers end, so I can yield to something that I'm certain is bigger than me.

  Melissa Febos

  Sex, Passion, Mad

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political, Battle, Teeth

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 30

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• There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing - probably whatever yields the best songs.

  Luke Bryan

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• Homosexual feelings are controllable. Perhaps there is an inclination or susceptibility to such feelings that is a reality for some and not a reality for others. But out of such susceptibilities come feelings, and feelings are controllable. If we cater to the feelings, they increase the power of the temptation. If we yield to the temptation, we have committed sinful behavior. That pattern is the same for a person that covets someone else's property and has a strong temptation to steal. It's the same for a person that develops a taste for alcohol.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Strong, Reality, Alcohol

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification that yields substantial phenotypic effects, and much else.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mistake, Example, Capacity

  Source: libcom.org

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