Losing Quotes - Page 23

In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.

If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.

For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

If you don't have a deal, you wind up losing money.

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.

Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you.

I can't stop myself from reaching for the bottle that's under my seat. I've gone all night without a sip, but it's not about being addicted. It's about being told what to do my whole life and doing it and then losing everything anyway.

I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.

Losing's a great motivator.

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

If you pursue the other woman, it's a losing situation and it's not good for your relationship or your marriage. If your marriage is open and you're allowed to, that's no good either. There's no way, really in the end, to be happy unless you get very lucky.

You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.

By losing present time, we lose all time.

Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.