Gained Quotes

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

I gained 60 pounds, and I'm proud of it. Why do I need to watch my weight when I'm pregnant? I could eat whatever the hell I want to eat.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph.

The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.

Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.