- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gaining Quotes
On progress, momentum, and access.
These Life quotes trace what it means to gain ground, from building a business out of an early idea to the quiet physics of a ship gaining speed once it is already underway.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're in this amazing frontier of transparency. WikiLeaks. Edward Snowden. 'Westworld' is reflecting that with these robots gaining consciousness. Them coming into consciousness is almost like us, human beings, coming into the truth of the fact that government is corrupt. Police are corrupt. Banks are corrupt. Etcetera, etcetera.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you practice yoga regularly, you get more then you will from jogging on the treadmill catching up on the last season of 'Lost.' When you practice yoga, you use your body and your mind, and you're gaining awareness and intuition.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In April 2013, Nathaniel Popper of 'The New York Times' reported on Bitcoin in an article titled, 'Digital Money is Gaining Champions in the Real World'.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially for the young and the lowest-skilled, minimum wage becomes a toll that prevents many from entering the work force and gaining the skills that can make a low income or middle class worker a high income worker. This is so obvious that one wonders why liberals keep championing the minimum wage cause.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020