Quotes by Yield My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much. Philippe Claudel yieldcookingsoul If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it, and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish. Philip Sidney yieldweaknesssensual Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy. Phillip Moffitt yieldcompassionkindness My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family. Phillip Lopate yieldpainteaching The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield. Piet Pieterszoon Hein yielddemandway Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin yieldsoulhands You must not be discouraged or let yourself become dejected if your actions have not succeeded as perfectly as you intended. What do you expect? We are made of clay and not every soil Pio of Pietrelcina clayyieldhumble Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. Pindar yieldwisdomself My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. Poul Anderson imperfectyieldstatistics I must yield to you, for you are irresistible. Plato irresistibleyieldteaching When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. Quintilian yielddefeathard-work When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. Quintilian yieldadvantagewinning Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion. Publilius Syrus seductionyieldvenus Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. R. Scott Bakker yielddoemen It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly. Ralph Merkle acresyieldlooks In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded. Ramez Naam yieldtechnologywater Yield not thy neck Rainer Maria Rilke yieldhealinghands Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to them directly, and don't try people without accusing them to their face. Badmouthing people behind their backs shows a serious lack of integrity and is counterproductive. It doesn't yield any beneficial change, and it subverts both the people you are badmouthing and the environment as a whole. Ray Dalio yieldintegritylife The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. Ralph Waldo Emerson yieldmenlife He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest. Richard Cecil yieldtearsjoy«2425262728293031323334»
