Best Gains Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.”

“Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).”

Political Process Party Risk Gains Seeking Seats Partisans Bipartisan Incumbents Redistricting

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.”

Order Rooms Practice Player Football Gains Weight Meetings Consistently Saturday American Football Lockers Locker Room Weight Room

Author:Junior Seau

“Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.”

Ifs Book Education College Gains College Education

Author:LL Cool J

“They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.”

Want Trying Littles Education College Gains Score Little Knowledge Off To College

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.”

People Mean Ends School Order Common Influence Gains Jew

Author:Adam Weishaupt

“Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.”

World Firsts Kind Found Activity My Friends Gains Workers Neighbor Paranormal Co Worker Announcing Paranormal Activity

Author:Oren Peli

“I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.”

Thinking Way Sound Growth Gains Labor Performances Bases Reform Combination Permanent Improving Unemployment Reducing Adjustment Sustaining

Author:Lucas Papademos

“In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.”

Years Ends Effort Gains Rate Temporary Greece Adjustment Euro Competitiveness

Author:Lucas Papademos

“When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.”

Should Helping President Hurt Economy Taxes Gains Should Have Clinton Rate Income President Bush President Clinton President Reagan President Kennedy Capital Gains

Author:Rob Portman

“It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.”

People Gains Facets

Author:Randy Quaid

“It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption.”

Country Government Fighting Responsibility Drug Gains Trade Corruption Administration Afghanistan New Government

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.”

Firsts Self Helping Evil Teach Higher Battle Gains Shining Sufi Higher Self Evil Within

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.”

Way Humans Stories Shows Grows Human Beings Quality Journey Hero Gains Overcoming Obstacles Great Qualities

Author:Sam Raimi

“To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.”

Should Firsts Social Security Benefits Gains Increase Impact Workers Income Consumers Typical Social Security Inflation American Workers

Author:Steven Rattner

“I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.”

Persons Actors Careers Gains I Realized Internals

Author:Sonja Sohn

“As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.”

Ifs Body Accepting Tough Gains Weight Teenager Gymnast Being A Teenager Spandex

Author:Alicia Sacramone

“A lot of women are in a crazy exercise cycle; they're so afraid they'll gain weight if they stop, and it's especially hard when they get pregnant. What they need to realize is that if you're not exercising so much, you don't have to eat so much, and your body adjusts. It sounds so simple, but you really do have to listen to your body.”

Ifs Needs Hard Body Sound Realizing Simple Crazy Exercise Gains Weight Your Body Cycles Pregnant

Author:Courtney Thorne Smith

“It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.”

Knows May Ideas Reality Found Principles Knowledge Greater Gains Certainty Reasoning Description Possessed Incomplete Exhibits Analogies

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

“Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.”

Life Is Purpose Views Gains Abuse Slave This Life Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still.”

World Mind Stills Wisdom Buddhism Conversation Enlightenment Gains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.”

Ifs Way Wisdom Light Knowing Meditation Buddhism Gains Planes Explanation Knowing Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.”

World Mind Stills Wisdom Knowing This World Buddhism Gains Other Worlds Knowing Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.”

Wisdom Universe Wise Buddhism Gains Our Relationship True Wisdom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It is easier to let go and gain new ways of looking at life.”

Way Self Buddhism Balance Easier Letting Go Gains Angry Jealous Self Control New Ways Torment Life Balance Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and higher imprinting that will lead you into the luminous spheres of awareness.”

Awareness Buddhism Higher Gains Overcoming Spheres Luminous Imprinting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.”

Feels Pain Happiness Life Is Loss Pleasure Like You Buddhism Unique Gains Breaths

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.”

World Pain Happiness Hate Loss Pleasure Love You Buddhism Circumstances Gains Happy Being Happy Hate You Love Hate World Love Happiness Is A Choice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.”

Mind Two Body Together Health Buddhism Discipline Gains Your Body Over You Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.”

Sports Health Buddhism Balance Succeed Gains Guides Athletics Knowledge And Wisdom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.”

Matter Sex Loses Gains Mark Operations Pounds Sex Change

Author:Todd Solondz

“There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.”

Long War Jobs America Left Term Taxes Office Percent Gains Rate Long Term Elders Capital Gains

Author:Andrew Tobias

“I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.”

Ifs Art Two Matter Eye Truth Is Gains Connected Chess Pursuit Two Things Martial Arts Links Parallels Thematic

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.”

Trying I Can Gains Weight Skinny

Author:Shailene Woodley

“I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.”

Country Able Lasts Generations Sitting Gains Radio Buttons Banging Osmosis

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.”

People Inspirational Buddhism Gains Eternity Claims Lifetime Finals Possession Checks Short Time

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.”

Humans Causes Liberty Leader Rights Gains Standing Conviction Annoying Patents Capital Gains

Author:Thomas Frank

“As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way.”

Way Inspirational Success Strong Ability Buddhism Truth Is Perception Gains Intelligent Evolve Truth Of Life Live Your Life Psychics Psychic Abilities Perception Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.”

Inspirational Use Emotion Journey Wind Buddhism Gains Navigate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.”

Inspirational Mind Together Buddhism Gains Working Together

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.”

People Mind Meditation Buddhism Gains Stopping Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them.”

Able Strong Ability Emotion Meditation Buddhism Exercise Gains Strikes Concentration Strong Emotions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.”

Hard Moving Form Meditation Buddhism Perception Gains Each Day Our Thoughts Power Of One

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.”

Enough Gains Weight Depriving Depriving Yourself

Author:Bethenny Frankel

“The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together.”

Made Dream Together Opportunity Buddhism Gains Insight Dimensions

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Self-realization doesn't imply loss, gain, even transition; it's only a settling. The separate sounds on the beach, the birds, the waves, the wind. They all come together again, they blend, they harmonize.”

Self Together Sound Loss Wind Bird Gains Wave Self Realization Realization Beach Settling Transition Hinduism Together Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.”

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

Thinking Motivational Wealth Materials Source Achievement Discovery Gains Originals Invention New Discoveries Original Thought Discovery And Invention

Book:Magic of Believing

Source: Magic of Believing

“States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.”

States Natural Gains Oil Gas Regulation Reserves Natural Gas

Author:Gina McCarthy

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