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Quotations regarding 'Yield'

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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Khalil Gibran, Poet (1883-1931)
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.
Daniel Goleman, American Author (1946-  )
Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.
Jane Grey, British Royalty (1537-1554)
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
Zane Grey, American Author (1872-1939)
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
Robert Grosseteste, English Statesman
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer (1907-1988)
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
Barbara Hepworth, English Artist (1903-1975)
Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
Barbara Hepworth, English Artist (1903-1975)
You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Anthony Hope, British Writer (1863-1933)
We are free to yield to truth.
Horace, Roman Poet
If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.
Anne Hutchinson, American Clergyman (1591-1643)
It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
Muhammed Iqbal, Indian Poet (1877-1938)
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
Henry James, American Writer (1843-1916)
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson, American President (1743-1826)
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson, American President (1743-1826)
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher (1724-1804)
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller, American Author (1880-1968)
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac, American Novelist (1922-1969)
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
Letitia Landon, -
Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.
Rick Larsen, American Politician (1965-  )
 
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