I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.
Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.
We gain internal freedom through external actions.
What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal knowledge will stay with you from one incarnation to another.
Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.
If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.
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.
Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who gains popularity by damaging the United States, while the other guy runs China.
The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.
Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.
Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.
If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains
By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.
More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.
I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.