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Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war. -- John Shebbeare
Gaining superpowers doesn't mean you know how to use them. -- Richelle Mead
Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . . -- Benjamin Franklin
Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time. -- Todd Duncan
Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it. -- Joyce Meyer
There is a way to touch the angels of the skies: Gaining the trust of birds! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors. -- Werner Herzog
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process -- Albert Bandura
Gaining people's trust might be harder than gaining all creation. But, what is harder than gaining people's trust is having to abandon them. -- Queen Seondeok of Silla
Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting. -- Lindsay Fox
Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels. -- Geeta Iyengar
Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the teachings, by creating happiness in your life, and by never giving up. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When love is our guiding light, we can break through barriers to be of loving service to the world. Gaining the courage and confidence to stand up for what you believe in is not always easy, but it's fully within your reach. -- Marianne Williamson
Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain. -- Russell Means
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige
I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer. -- Johnny Damon
Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you. -- Tom Waits
I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size. -- Sebastian Stan
Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world. -- Melissa McCarthy
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. -- Susan B. Anthony
When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by. -- Shania Twain
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge. -- Marvin Bower
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. -- Denis Waitley
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. -- Vladimir Putin
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. -- Tadao Ando
America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation. -- Bill Frist
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it. -- Kit Carson
We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education. -- Charles Vest
After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out. -- Valerie Bertinelli
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. -- Denis Waitley
Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language. -- David Crystal
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. -- Confucius
Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally. -- Pink
We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene. -- Jeff Cooper
Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name. -- Saint Ignatius
In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories. -- Paul Revere
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. -- Martin Van Buren
Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds. -- Pete Rose
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers. -- Gloria Steinem
Talent is an art of gaining admiration! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status. -- Karin Tidbeck
Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think. -- Rachel Kushner
For one gains by losing And loses by gaining. -- Laozi
Never look back; something is always gaining on you. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge. -- John Dewey
Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness. -- Alan Cohen
IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE -- Charleston Parker
You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul. -- Julia Cameron
Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining. -- Laozi
I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all. -- Nicole Richie
We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation -- Lowell L. Bennion
I fear that by gaining a limit, we'll lose an excuse. -- Romeo LeBlanc
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge. -- Stephen Hawking
Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy. -- Frederick Lenz
As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards. -- Jamal Lewis
Losing something might be a blessing; gaining something might be a curse! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Earning an education is not the same as gaining a skill set. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one. -- Raymond Burr
Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well. -- Amy Adams
Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time. -- Pratik Patil
Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well. -- Edith Hamilton
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. -- Baltasar Gracian
Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper. -- Johnny Depp
Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body. -- Joseph Pilates
It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge. -- Narendra Modi
Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein. -- Manu Bennett
Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself. -- Rosemary Ellen Guiley
By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost. -- Confucius
Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. -- John Galt
Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world -- Melissa McCarthy
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. -- Susan B. Anthony
If I could eat without gaining weight or getting unhealthy, I would eat all the time. -- Corey Johnson
A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature. -- Isaac Asimov
The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I'm glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention. -- Dolores Huerta
Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition. -- Ed McCabe
Today is a great day of inspiration and gaining strength to move forward with determination and purpose. -- Lee Pryke
The most assured way of gaining maximum respect, is to permanently become a person of great honor. -- Edmond Mbiaka
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. -- Samuel Johnson
By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam. -- Mohammed Emami-Kashani
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker." -Dan Cahill -- Gordon Korman
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission. -- Don DeLillo
ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception. -- Ted Cruz
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. -- Branch Rickey
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom. -- Idries Shah
People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something. -- Sharon Stone
The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea. -- Shunryu Suzuki
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies. -- Terence McKenna
Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better. -- George P. Shultz
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough. -- Tammy Bruce
You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power. -- Neil Kinnock
Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me. -- America Ferrera
The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body. -- Joseph Pilates
Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process. -- Don Farrell
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security... -- Alfred Adler
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. -- John Locke
It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously. -- Aristotle
Getting a woman's body and getting her heart are two different things. And gaining her trust is another problem entirely. -- Lora Leigh
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever. -- Louisa May Alcott
I've made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed. -- Michael Glawogger
Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom. -- Debasish Mridha
But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this. -- Lily Collins
Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate. -- Carolyn Crane
Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything. -- Orhan Pamuk
Sex is probably the most fun you can have in life without gaining weight or having a hangover the next day. -- Linda Sunshine
If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine. -- Joe Bastianich
As your training progresses, always remember that the key to gaining the ability for spontaneous and creative technique lies in good ukemi; -- Mitsugi Saotome
Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining -- Lyndon B. Johnson
One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path. -- Gautama Buddha

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