Gain Quotes

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

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

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

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.

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.

FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.