Top 21 Small Gains Quotes
#1. Diplomacy, if conducted sensibly, is a matter of small gains offset by small losses, an attempt to maintain a state of equilibrium in which catastrophes are either mitigated or, with luck, avoided entirely.
William S. Maltby
#2. Efficiency is anything that scores.
Bruce Lee
#3. Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.
Isobelle Carmody
#4. Study for Knowledge, not for marks. If you have the Knowledge, you will get the marks.
Khurshed Batliwala
#5. Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.
Swami Vivekananda
#6. If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
Michael Bloomberg
#7. All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
Sun Ra
#8. How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?
Janny Wurts
#9. The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.
James Mercer
#10. I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow
Barack Obama
#12. So nearly everyone had an opinion. Polls showed that most supported the Russell program, an informal name for Sax's plans to terraform the planet by all means possible, as fast as they could.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#14. The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.
William Stanley Jevons
#15. So I know, with a sense of responsibility that hits me with a cold fist in the pit of my stomach, that what I am is going to make more difference to my own children and those I talk to and teach than anything I tell them.
Madeleine L'Engle
#16. Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't.
Matthew Syed
#17. Nhb stared at the blade reverently. Here was a token of past victories and the valor of long dead people. "With this I can fulfill my duty to my people and defeat the Shadow," Nhb thought.
Rachel Wetsriru
#18. Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.
Epictetus
#19. There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#20. If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas
David Landes
#21. People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.
William Zinsser
