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A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

Charles Spurgeon
yield oxygen air

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I’ve tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that.

Charlie Munger
yield regret mistake

None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery.

Charlotte Mason
yield men book

Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too swampy for the cultivation of the yams which God has directed him to grow. God tells him to bring in a blacksmith to dry the soil with his bellows. The contribution of humanity to this creation is so important. God could have made the world perfect if he had wanted. But he made it the way it is. So that there is a constant need for us to discuss and cooperate to make it more habitable, so the soil can yield, you see.

Chinua Achebe
yield morning men

The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts.

Chretien de Troyes
yield love-you love-is

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

Christian Nestell Bovee
yield party strong
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though s... by Christian Nestell Bovee

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

Christian Nestell Bovee
mistress yield favors
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully. by Christian Nestell Bovee

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

Christian Nestell Bovee
yield defeat half

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Christopher Marlowe
yield love life
I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betra... by Clara Schumann

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

Clara Schumann
conviction yield demand

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

Clayton Christensen
yield ocean years
Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from buildin... by Clayton Christensen

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

Clayton Christensen
building-up yield people

It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource.

Clayton Christensen
yield successful giving

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Confucius
yield teacher men

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Cornel West
yield self clever
Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results. by Creflo A. Dollar

Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.

Creflo A. Dollar
yield jesus christ

A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

D. H. Lawrence
yield men children

Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single beingwhich accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.

D. H. Lawrence
yield freedom love

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.

Dag Hammarskjold
yield accepting giving
Life yields only to the conqueror. by Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror.

Dag Hammarskjold
muscles yield life
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