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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Experience, Wisdom, Reflection

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Denis Waitley

Life, Experience, Learning

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Denis Waitley

Work, Art, Winners

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Humor, Person, Attention

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.
Charles Stanley

Knowledge, Enough, Realize

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.
Jeff Cooper

Hurt, Long, Dead

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.
Pink

Single, Person, Different

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.
Shania Twain

Struggle, Difficult, Quality

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
Roger Tory Peterson

Life, Understand, Beginning

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Great, Two, Economy

I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer.
Johnny Damon

Beer, Drinking, Weight

Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
Tom Waits

I definitely wouldn't mind gaining a few more pounds at all.
Nicole Richie

Mind, Few, Definitely

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
Barbara Boxer

Respect, True, Democracy

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
Tadao Ando

Spiritual, Lost, Culture

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.
Sheryl Crow

Nature, Art, Wisdom

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
Martin Van Buren

Great, Universe, Genius

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
Carlisle Floyd

Music, Work, Amazing

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
William Falconer

Great, Greatest, May

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.
Lily Collins

Why, Looking, Fame

Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.
Felix Baumgartner

Humble, Become, Tell

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.
Daniel H. Wilson

Work, Strange, Dangerous

I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.
Valerie Jarrett

Women, Business, Small

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.
Herman Kahn

Hope, Enough, Others

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.
Archie Panjabi

Fight, Friends, Community

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
Valerie Bertinelli

Divorce, Getting, Weight

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
Valerie Bertinelli

Simple, Down, After

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.
Ulrich Beck

While, Actually, Ask

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.
Sebastian Junger

Men, Society, Human

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