#gaining

During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned. ↗

— Martin Ryle

#during #engineering #experience #forgot #gaining

Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy. ↗

— Luis Figo

#cup #easy #going #regaining

She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly - the thought of the world's concern at her situation - was founded on illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides, Tess was only a passing thought. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#self-absorption #experience

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

#also #ask #attempting #cosmopolitan #dialogue

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

#cause #democracy #example #gaining #just

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

— Johnny Damon

#drinking #gaining #i #right #right way

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education. ↗

— Charles Vest

#better #cost #education #efficiencies #elements

And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#bargaining #because #collective #collective bargaining #going

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing. ↗

— Judy Holliday

#away #bargaining #best #born #columbia

As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards. ↗

— Jamal Lewis

#i #i can #long #north #south