Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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.
Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.
I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.
Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
I can see the time coming when I won’t need to be out there in the upper pyramid of climbing, but the things you gain from a lifetime of climbing are worth communicating.
I returned from my last L.A. visit to find myself tipping the scales like Homer Simpson when he tries to gain enough weight to qualify as disabled to be allowed to work from home. All I was missing was his kaftan and Fat Guy Hat. So, I decided it was time to diet.
The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don’t know their neighbors, I don’t think that technology is at fault. You don’t lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
I’m taking each day one day at a time, and building up my strength and endurance. It’s crazy because it takes no time at all to lose everything you have and then so much time to gain it back.
I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly. David Blaine is an example of someone who’s better at self-promoting than me. He is much better than I am.
I grew up in a number of homes and I grew up without a lot of structure. I understand now that damage is part of the journey. Heartbreak. Loss. Gain.
Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
Work is sacred. It is not just a way to earn money or gain power, though it may result in both. Work is a vehicle for testing out our gifts and talents and using them to explore their meaning.
Hopefully, whenever I play more, I’ll be able to do well and gain more confidence.
It’s important for me to keep my cardio up, especially for my body type, or I’ll gain weight so fast.
I believe confusion is good. Worldwide market leaders gain when there is confusion in the market.
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.
Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.
If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.
Social media can be a powerful tool to listen to, engage with and gain access to customers that you would otherwise not be able to connect with.
The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.
Why not take a science fiction comic and put the characters in a small town to gain their particular perspective? A lot of that comes from me growing up in a small town on a farm, so that’s what I know and what I’m comfortable with. My drawing style is also very sparse and minimalist, so a rural setting complements that.
Once you get that feeling of winning something and performing at the highest level, you gain that extra confidence to help you set new targets. That is something I have always done, mentally-wise.
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Protecting yourself is very challenging in the hostile environment of the Internet. Imagine a global environment where an unscrupulous person from the other side of the planet can probe your computer for weaknesses and exploit them to gain access to your most sensitive secrets.
Having parents that have been through the wars of films and having a brother and sister who have done it at the highest level, you gain an appreciation. But we’ve always had closeness as a family. That’s our anchor.
Some people gain weight during times of stress, but I lose weight.
I expect my return to be 18 to 25 percent in 1988, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 should rise 8 to 12 percent and OTC stocks gain 15 percent as liquidity emerges.
At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.
I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose… you lose to gain.
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source – the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
Class does not mean huge possession of money. Mother Teresa was a classy woman. So is Manjula Bhargava, a great mathematician of Indian origin. The concept that you automatically gain class by acquiring money is an outdated thought process.
By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
I’ve always tried very hard to gain weight since I was very young.
Kitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world’s largest markets.
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that’s what they are – they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.
Children are our future and every child deserves to have an environment where they can learn and flourish and gain knowledge.
I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world – Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they’re coming from.
I don’t think anything’s more rewarding than hearing that you’ve helped someone gain a love of reading.
Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
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.
When you’re a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it’s best not to care too much.
To become a mother is to learn a whole language – to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born – and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
Working with Roshni gives me lot of confidence. When I started SSN – in 1994, after a windfall gain from HCL-HP then – I was OK to do it alone. My brother, who was supposed to head it, passed away. We had a governing council to run it. That was a leap of faith, and we didn’t know where we will get.
As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can’t even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.
Dog-fooding is using your own products so that you understand from inside out what it is you’re providing the customers. It’s another way to gain insights and to gain intelligence. You use it yourself; you eat your own dog food. Every time we do that, we discover something that we can improve.
Most of the time, people say negative things for a reaction, and I can’t even bear to give them the satisfaction. So there’s something that I gain from feeling like I’m the bigger person, from walking away from a situation.
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 gain a lot of confidence through study.
Let us ask ourselves, ‘What kind of people do we think we are?’ And let us answer, ‘Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.’
