“No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.” IfsChildrenStillsMatterAgeYoungTakenGainsRootsWhere You AreYoung Age Author:Russell Peters
“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.” PeopleIfsWayLooksPersonsMomentsFeelingsViewsPerspectiveWallHorrorGainsPitySaneAsylumsHoarding Book:Money, Possessions, and Eternity Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity
“I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.” IfsThinkingMenHardChoicesLove IsQualityBreakDoubtDangerGainsAdvantagePunishmentObligationLiarsLinksFearfulDreadGreedyRottenUngratefulFickleDeceiver Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room” IfsMenWayWantShouldI CanMomentsYoungCertainRoomsWonderNovelImagineLimitsShadowGainsLonelyUnionsWorkersYoung ManRevelationsHotelRopeAppearingFlatteringAlleysHotel RoomsImmediacyLonely Women Author:James Vance
“I always tell women, "Get in front of a mirror, know your body." Don't think, "OK, I'm going to lose five pounds and I'm going to gain five pounds." Try to find an acceptance in the present and buy things that make you feel good. I would say, if you're buying less expensive clothes, buy two sizes bigger. They'll hang better.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsTryingTwoBodyLosesFiveFrontsAcceptanceClothesGainsBiggerMirrorsSizeYour BodyFeel GoodExpensiveBuyingPoundsMake You Feel GoodExpensive Clothes Author:Molly Sims
“I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and so forth, but, ultimately, I'd say it's about us, and it's about society, and I say - even if its sounds a little controversial - put the police aside for a second. It's really not about them. It's about the game that's been created to keep the status quo going and to let the people who own it all gain from the game.” PeopleIfsThinkingLittlesCertainGamesSoundBehaviorGainsPoliceBlameDepartmentOfficersStatus QuoControversialPolice Officer Author:Oren Moverman
“If you change a location opportunistically, to gain a day on the schedule, which I did more than once, you have to re-rig everything creatively on the spot, and you not only have to be able to do that, but do it with great fluency to keep moving. I used to go apeshit when anything got changed in a film but you live and learn, and I have learned.” IfsAbleFilmMovingUsedChangedGainsSpotsI Have LearnedLocationSchedulesKeep MovingLive And LearnRigsFluencyYou Live And Learn Author:William Monahan
“It's just my maybe naive, optimistic view that whatever knowledge we gain, and if it comes to pass that we can somehow understand what consciousness is, if we can somehow create that, it will ultimately be used for the good.” IfsUsedViewsConsciousnessGainsOptimisticNaive Author:Neill Blomkamp
“The main one is that these apparel jobs are a very important means for young women in these countries to gain autonomy. The other big lesson is that it can't be just about activism. This is most clear to me in the case of China, where we do not have freedom of the press. If the press is free and can report on what's happening, then change happens.” IfsMeanImportantCountryBigsHappensJobsYoungCasesClearLessonsHappeningsGainsPressesChinaActivismReportsYoung WomenAutonomyFreedom Of The PressApparel Author:Pietra Rivoli
“Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is coherent, trust that was the best writing advice I ever got (I got it from Carole Maso and I pass it on). It's true, and clearer and clearer as one grows and gains an improved sense of who one actually is (as versus who one was supposed to be).” IfsWritingMindTogetherGrowsGriefWrittenAdviceFitShapesGainsComplicatedSupposed To BeVersusWriting AdviceComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“There's a new line of research showing that people who don't get enough sleep, they're body doesn't metabolize as well. And so they actually - it leads to weight gain. So if you're not getting enough sleep, you might have difficulty losing weight.” PeopleIfsWellsEnoughBodyMightLinesSleepLosingResearchGainsWeightDifficultyEnough Sleep Author:Shelby Harris
“I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the way, and you might gain other people on the way, that's just the way it is. But nevertheless, if you're driven by something, there is no argument about it; that's what you have to do.” PeopleIfsWayImportantMightLosesGainsArgumentImportant ThingsDrivenNevertheless Author:Paul Weller
“We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have to trick themselves out to gain attention, it is a sure sign that they are unworthy of it. If we want to make ourselves worthy, we can do so only by the innate eminence conferred by virtue. We hold great people in esteem more for the qualities of their soul than for the qualities of their fortune.” PeopleIfsWantSoulShowsCan DoAttentionQualityVirtueGainsDignityFortuneWorthyTricksEsteemInnateUnworthyGreat PeopleWardrobeParadesShowing OffEminence Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.” IfsLosesBusinessToo MuchConversationGainsFaultsExcessBrevity Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the burning of desire for gain is itself a pit of fire, while drowning in greedy love is itself a bitter sea. The moment thoughts are pure, fierce flames become a pond; the moment you become aware, the boat has arrived on the further shore. If your thoughts vary at all, your world will immediately differ, so can we not be careful?” IfsWorldHumansMadeMomentsDesireLove IsFireSeaPureGainsFortuneCarefulBitterBoatBuddhistBurningHuman LifeFlamesRealmsTaoismShoreBe CarefulFierceGreedyPitsDrowningCalamityGood FortuneVaryPonds Author:Zicheng Hong
“If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.” IfsInspirationalListeningGainsMarketingObservationOccupationScouting Author:Robert Baden-Powell
“Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement - these were big social transitions in which there was a movement on the ground in which a lot of people died, but it also took an independent political party.” PeopleIfsLooksEndsBigsPoliticalSocialPartyStruggleMovementGainsLaborVoteDiedIndependentSlaveryTransitionPolitical PartiesRight To VoteLabor Movement Author:Jill Stein
“Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.” IfsSchoolMeditationStudentsGainsSelf Centered Author:Pico Iyer
“I think if you had a capital-gains system where the long, patient capital would actually be rewarded, nanosecond capital turning would not be.” IfsThinkingLongGainsPatientCapital Gains Author:Hillary Clinton
“If I want to gain weight, I can gain weight. If I want to lose weight, I will lose weight. If I want to be fit, I'll be fit.” IfsWantI CanLosesFitGainsWeightLose Weight Author:Guy Burnet
“If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.” IfsThinkingWantCountryInterestPolicyGainsForeign PolicyEuropean Countries Author:Vladimir Putin
“There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.” IfsKnowsMayCompanyKnowledgeOne ThingPleaseGainsGlad Book:The Modern Chesterfield Source: The Modern Chesterfield
“The visa thing can be an issue, if you're going to work for someone here make sure they will help you with this. However, so that you know what you need make sure you research the visa issue on your own. A 90 day visa is not a problem and I saw six month visas being offered through the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia, but nothing about one year visas or temporary residence cards. Of course you are probably aware that you need some sort of visa in advance just to gain entry into Vietnam.” IfsKnowsNeedsYearsHelpingProblemCoursesIssuesSawsMonthsSixResearchGainsCardsTemporaryVietnamSix MonthsGoing To WorkEntryVisaVietnameseResidenceCambodiaEmbassy Author:Doug Rice
“I think that if he [Donald Trump] does really want to make gains, if he does want to find a path to those voters who are in the middle, then he needs to do different things than just do these rallies.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsDoeDifferentPathMiddleTrumpGainsDifferent ThingsVoters Author:Bill Burton
“Surely the world will be a better place, at least marginally, if people have a better understanding of Kant and Hegel, if Marx's thought its studied and appreciated, if people gain a better understanding of Fichte, whose philosophy is far more important than people realize.” PeopleIfsWorldImportantPhilosophyUnderstandingRealizingGainsBetter PlaceAppreciatedHegel Author:Allen W. Wood
“If I were to be super critical, I would say Formula One is too tactical and not strategic enough. And that brings us back to the digital issue: you may have to invest in order to gain - sacrifice some short-term effects in order to make high returns in the future.” IfsMayEnoughOrderTermIssuesSacrificeEffectsReturnGainsCriticalDigitalFormulasShort TermStrategicTacticalFormula One Author:Martin Sorrell
“Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.” PeopleIfsHas BeensTodayPastClassStruggleCollegeHugeReturnVictoryGainsPaidMedicineIncludingProfitSocialismMassiveHealthcareWorking ClassFundingPublic ServiceSwedenCollege EducationNorwaySocialized MedicineScandinavia Author:Kshama Sawant
“I said, I'll put on weight. And I started having massages, taking cod-liver oil, and eating twice as much. But I didn't even gain an ounce. I'd made up my mind that on the day the engagement was announced I'd be fatter, and I didn't gain an ounce. Then I went to Mussoorie, which is a health resort, and I ignored the doctors' instructions; I invented my own regime and gained weight. Just the opposite of what I'd like now. Now I have the problem of keeping slim. Still I manage. I don't know if you realize I'm a determined woman.” IfsKnowsMindMadeSaidStillsProblemRealizingMy OwnEatingGainsDoctorsOppositesWeightDeterminedOilManageEngagementInstructionRegimesIgnoredResortsLiverMassageSlimDetermined Woman Author:Indira Gandhi
“If Hillary [Clinton] is elected, is she going to be able to jack up taxes with virtually no deductions, and include capital gains? Unless democrats have a clean sweep of Congress, I don't think that's going to happen either.” IfsThinkingHappensAbleTaxesGainsCleanClintonDemocratCongressDeductionsCapital Gains Author:Gary Shilling
“Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a yield spread in Treasurys versus their own sovereigns, plus the fact that if the dollar is going to continue rallying - and I think it will because it's a safe haven - then they get a currency translation gain as well.” IfsThinkingWellsCountryFactsHavensHigherSafeLowsPicksGainsDollarsSpreadPlusYieldInvestorsCurrencyVersusTranslationsSafe HavenDeveloped CountryRallying Author:Gary Shilling
“In a monastic setting, if someone doesn't want to obey the rules and just wants to live the way they've always lived as a lay person, then why did they become ordained? They have no sense that they have to give something up to gain so much.” IfsWayWantGivingPersonsGainsLaysSettingSettings Author:Tenzin Palmo
“That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it.” IfsEnoughInterestHoursGainsEight Author:Erich Fromm
“I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would gain an understanding as to why perhaps - perhaps - the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the New York Police Department and others in law enforcement greatly feared what Malcolm X was about, because he was trying to build a broad - an unprecedented black coalition across the lines of black nationalism and integration. And in way, it presages 30 years ahead of time, the Million Man March.” IfsMenWayTryingYearsBelieveBookLawI BelieveUnderstandingBlackLinesMillionsMissingNew YorkGainsPoliceDepartmentNationalismMarchBroadsChaptersAutobiographyIntegrationLaw EnforcementEnforcementIn-lawsUnprecedentedCoalitionsAhead Of TimePolice DepartmentBlack NationalismMalcolm X Autobiography Author:Manning Marable
“Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening; he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and what I gained was his supportive energy and the supportive energy of his wife, who was sometimes the one schlepping the equipment or doing the sound.” IfsGivingSometimesWantedEnergySoundLosesWifeGainsThreateningEquipmentSupportiveNothing To Lose Author:Patti Smith
“Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.” IfsBelieveGainsFinancialLobbyists Author:Jessica Chastain
“I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we had entrepreneurship in the black community. Right now, in Harlem, if I wanted to get a shoe repaired, I would have a hard time finding a black shoe repairman. On near about every third corner, you could find a decent black barber, decent black laundry, had restaurants in the neighborhood that were open 24 hours. The food was good at 3 o'clock in the morning as at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.” PeopleIfsBelieveHardWantedBlackCommunityHoursLossMorningGreaterRightsMovementRight NowFindingsGainsThirdsShoesCornersCivil RightsEntrepreneurshipClockDecentRestaurantsHard TimesNeighborhoodAfternoonCivil Rights MovementLaundryHarlemBlack CommunityBarbers Author:John Henrik Clarke
“If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a habitable climate, and rein in the dangers of nuclear and other warfare, then we should. However, if we think it's more likely that California can achieve those goals by secession, then we should go down that path. There's no question. It's an absolute moral imperative.” IfsThinkingShouldGovernmentGoalMoralPathAchieveDangerGainsAbsolutesClimateNuclearPreservesCaliforniaEnlightenedProgressiveWarfareImperativesReinsSecession Author:David Swanson
“If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.” IfsMeanEconomicHigherActivityLimitsTaxesPercentGainsHarderDollarsInvestmentRateInvestingIncomeSavingExtrasProductiveWealthyContrastConsumptionTaxpayersSavingsDiscouragingIncome TaxSavings And Investment Author:Robert H. Frank
“If you innovate broadly, focus on the customer experience, and deliver everyday a great product, you will gain share.” IfsFocusShareProductsGainsEverydayCustomersCustomer Experience Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“I specially want to have young women not to wait as I did until my children were grown, but young women to come in to gain their seniority so they could be respected leaders at a much earlier age. It's important for all women to see young women who share their experience whether it's as a working mom with young children, who understands the struggle and the aspirations of young women in a similar situation. And if they don't have family and they're pursuing their career women should see that as well.” IfsWantShouldWellsChildrenImportantAgeYoungWaitingSituationLeaderCareersStruggleShareMomGainsMy ChildrenAspirationYoung WomenYoung ChildrenCareer WomenWorking MomSeniority Author:Nancy Pelosi
“In the end the only thing that you can have on your side is time. The only way to gain time is by living it. And if I live expending my energy worrying about other people's perceptions, then I'm missing my moment.” PeopleIfsWayEndsMomentsEnergySidesWorryMissingPerceptionGainsYour Side Author:Demi Moore
“If you're a wealthy heir with a trust fund, and you sell stocks, make your 10% gains since Donald Trump, and then you buy other stocks, you can avoid paying taxes. And if your accountant registers your wealth offshore in a Panamanian fund, like Russian kleptocrats do - and as more and more Americans do - you don't have to pay any tax at all, because it's not American income, it's foreign income in an enclave without an income tax.” IfsWealthPayTrumpTaxesGainsSellsIncomeFundWealthyRegisterIncome TaxHeirsAccountantsPaying TaxesOffshoreTrust Funds Author:Michael Hudson
“Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindMeanDoeEnoughGainsAdvantageFinancialDesperateSuing Author:Errol Morris
“The challenges, the changes we're talking about often seem to them like unbelievable opportunities to deliver a product quicker, better. If you can improve the quality, lower the cost, and improve the turns - and you can do that because your information systems, your delivery systems, are better because of technology - well, you see that as a wonderful opportunity to gain market share.” IfsWellsSeemsTurnsOpportunityCan DoChallengesQualityTalkingTechnologyWonderfulShareInformationProductsCostGainsUnbelievableDeliveryInformation Systems Author:Ken Moelis
“In Japanese society, the competitiveness is within a traditional respecting framework. The Japanese will not compete if that competition involves violence or if it is a zero sum gain - if you win, someone has to lose.” IfsWinningLosesViolenceGainsCompetitionTraditionalZeroFrameworkCompetitiveness Author:Shinobu Yaguchi
“Various studies indicate that with age people gain more wisdom about life and are somehow happier than younger people. This is especially true if, as we age, we learn how to become more generous, altruistic, and peaceful.” PeopleIfsAgeStudyGainsVariousPeacefulGenerous Author:Matthieu Ricard
“If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.” IfsPolicyGainsTablesSeatsEmployeeAgendasMutualEmployers Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“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.” PeopleIfsLifeInspirationalLooksMatterMotivationalSportsLeadershipSeeingConfidenceGainsCoachingVolleyballAmerican FootballBelief In SelfInspiring FootballOutstanding LeadershipCoaches MotivationalFootball LeadershipGaining ConfidenceSupreme Confidence Author:Tom Landry
“Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.” IfsAmericaGamesLossGainsChinaDebateZeroLockedZero Sum Game Author:Eric Liu
“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.” IfsInspirationalYearsLittlesEndsSuccessReadingFeltMinutesGainsEdgesSentencesResolveReading BooksFifteenLiteracySingle Sentence Book:Common School Journal Source: Common School Journal