Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Kahneman

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

If I could eat without gaining weight or getting unhealthy, I would eat all the time.

Tony Stewart

We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here. A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.

Tony Stewart

We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here, ... A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.

Natalie Morales

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

Anna Louise Strong

I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.

Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

Jeb Bush

This storm can gain power very, very quickly ... this is serious business,

Paul Levine

Today was pretty skewed because of the gains in Merck and Pfizer at the end. Without that, the Dow would have been down today.

Paul Levine

Today was pretty skewed because of the gains in Merck and Pfizer at the end, ... Without that, the Dow would have been down today.

Sharon Stone

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Barry Ritholtz

When Greenspan spoke the market rallied, and when he stopped it gave the gains back.

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

William Stafford

We are led one thing at a time to that pure gain -- all that we lose.

There are not a lot of job gains forecast.

Kenny Rogers

There is a trade off -- as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

We are pleased that there were more gains in more schools than in previous years.

Chuck Zito

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

Alexander Berkman

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

Albert Einstein

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less and exercise more.

Nitrogen levels in the soil are high after peas. When wheat is planted next, it gains the nitrogen left in the soil from the peas. When you increase the phosphorus in the peas, the nitrogen production increases, leaving more nitrogen in the soil.

McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, Popeye's and Sonic have produced same-store sales gains of 4 percent or higher.

Meaningless is everything, until it gains sense in someone's life...

Larry Ellison

My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.

one of those compromises in which everyone gains something and no one gains everything.

We did nothing wrong. Damon Archibald did not do anything wrong. Damon did nothing illegal. He never tried to gain anything or get anything other than ascertain a good schedule for us.

Stella McCartney

The only positive thing you can really gain through losing someone is learning, and teaching other people, ... So I hope to teach other people, and I hope to learn.

Certainly, it's important to gain inroads with the Jackson area. But we would have recruited Jeremy if he was from somewhere random like Texas. He's just a terrific player that will help us immediately.

But that's just the trend with malls. Malls lose stores and they gain stores and in 2006 we have some great things happening.

Maybe it was a PK (penalty kick), but I don't think there was any intent and the player has to gain an advantage. That hurt and we let down after that. We started pushing too hard and trying to do too many things.