#yield

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#seek #strive #yield

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. ↗

— Peter Singer

#complex #decision-making #even #human #long-term

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. ↗

— Stendhal

#appointment #happiness #never #should #unforeseen

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price. ↗

— George Stigler

#came #chicago #conditions #dispersion #economic

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ask #comes #freedom #goods #life

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#considering #far #flesh #forbidden #fruits

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. ↗

— Gary Becker

#alone #analysis #assumptions #behavior #implications

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#comes #diamonds #efforts #experience #favorite

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ↗

— Francis Drake

#beginning #continuing #end #finished #glory

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#because #colonies #impossible #keep #know