Quotes About Yield

In June 1970 the question "How much?" could be answered by the magic figure 9.40%—the yield obtainable on new offerings of high-grade public-utility bonds. This has now dropped to about 7.3%, but even that return tempts us to ask, "Why give any other answer?

If we do not possess the Spirit of Christ, no matter how hard we attempt to "yield" to God's control, we will not experience that alien ability in our feelings and responses. We will be capable of "good works" but not "God works." Only a believer perceives the difference. Remember, God doesn't think, speak, or act like us.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet. It is the root of more unhappiness than poverty, disease, and erectile dysfunction. To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. If you believe in God (and I do) you must declare Resistance evil, for it prevents us from achieving the life God intended when He endowed each of us with our own unique genius.

Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.

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

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

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.

Technical knowledge, divorced from what it is supposed to be knowledge of, yields only the illusion of understanding

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I have a way of dealing with temptation. I just succumb and get it over with.

Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1

farmers who get the message that consumers care only about price will themselves care only about yield. This is how a cheap food economy reinforces itself.

GMO seed is just the latest chapter in an old story: Farmers eager to increase their yields adopt the latest innovation, only to find that it's the companies selling the innovations who reap the most from the gain in the farmer's productivity.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

Yet, to yield, to accept death: the mind forbade it. The mind demanded, against all sense, to go on. Fanning

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

A warrior fights. She does not yield, and she does not abandon her people.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of those same crops.

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.