“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
“With the marketplace urging parents to buy all manner of things to make their babies ‘smart,’ Gallagher’s book offers parents a view based in science on how much babies really know and figure out on their own. Parents will have fun with this book and gain new respect and awe for their babies’ amazing capabilities.” KnowsBookFunParentViewsFiguresBabyOffersSmartGainsHaving FunAweCapabilityMarketplaceGallagher Author:Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
“I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.” BelieveSpiritualI BelieveSportsFiguresProduceTvsPrayingWorshipGainsObsessive Author:Chuck Lorre
“Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.” MindHumansAbleDesireSimpleEffortClearFiguresDemandGainsRootsManageMotiveSolePenetrate Book:The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
“I've seen so many beautiful curvy women gain success in hollywood and then wither into bobble headed stick figures in some grotesque attempt to fit a revolting hollywood trend. I like real women, not the broomsticks that Hollywood has been selling lately.” Has BeensRealBeautifulFiguresFitGainsHollywoodSticksSellingTrendsGrotesqueCurvyReal WomenBroomsticksCurvy Women Author:Matthew Gray Gubler
“The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.” PeopleTryingYearsFirstsPersonsMinutesFiguresGainsFirst TimeSpreadWitnessMomentum Author:Darren Criss
“The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.” IfsKnowsWantLooksRealityInterestForgetEconomyFiguresGainsInvestmentRateSpendingProductivityConsumersInflationInterest RateRetailIndicatorsRetail Sales Author:Mark Skousen
“If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.” IfsLongPhilosophyStoriesShowsRunningCertainLiteratureWishDifficultInterestingSecretSubjectsFiguresExampleFieldsObjectsCoupleGainsAspectAll ThingsUnityEducationalWanderVarietyAbstractConcreteTopicsAcquisitionPupilsUnfamiliarPersonal Gain Author:William James