When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.
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.
The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.
You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.
Never look back; something is always gaining on you.
Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.
I fear that by gaining a limit, we'll lose an excuse.
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.
In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.
Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.
To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.
Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status.
I think the public is very reluctant to get involved in more foreign wars, especially in the Middle East. And they understand, implicitly, that we go to war in the Middle East because of oil. And if we don't want to go to war in the Middle East, then we have to do something about the oil problem. And I think that view is gaining ground in the U. S.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.
Earning an education is not the same as gaining a skill set.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favor, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.