- Finish Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lose Quotes
On defeat, restraint, and what slips away.
This set covers losing in several senses: standing by a cause even in defeat, losing enjoyment by over-thinking something, and losing composure under pressure. The tension between winning and losing shows up again in our Game quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you lose control of risk at a financial institution, you do a variety of unfortunate credit extensions or purchases - and all of a sudden, you've blown up your business.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Americans lose the wider face-to-face ties that build social trust, they become more dependent on romantic relationships for intimacy and deep communication and more vulnerable to isolation if a relationship breaks down.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can always learn when you lose.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing a best of five-set match, you can always bounce back, even if you lose the first set.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.
- Leaving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around the holidays, or anytime I'm going on vacation, I try to bump up my cardio or lose a pound before leaving.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to do theatre in school and college. When I started working on television, only the camera was new. Theatre experience really helps one lose inhibitions.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020