“You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.” WayUseFiguresBuddhismExerciseMindfulnessGainsBest WayConcentration Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” PeopleWayTryingPleaseGainsAffectionBest Way Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“If I work hard and am rewarded, then I haven't really gained anything. It has been a trade: I've put in, and I've gotten back. Only if I am rewarded without having done anything have I actually come out ahead. The best way to gain the most is to do nothing.” IfsWayHas BeensHardDoneHavensHard WorkGainsTradeBest Way Author:John S. Hall
“Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.” WayCompanyShareListeningGainsCustomersBest WayVisionariesListening To Others Author:Esther Dyson
“Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best qualities are the result of a struggle whose outcome is tragic. Yet he is a creature of love.” MenWorldWayKindCultureSimplePleasureResultsPayQualityStruggleHellAchieveCivilizationCreaturesEqualGainsDefeatSatisfactionBest WayCompromiseImpulseOutcomesTragicBiologyFacultyCoins Author:Lionel
“The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.” WayLinesFieldsGainsBallsBest WayYards Author:John Madden
“Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.” PeopleWayBelieveLibertyDemocracyGainsSlaveLibertarianBest WayLibertarianismRulingDemocracies HaveSubmissiveLibertarian Party Author:Joseph Sobran