- 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
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans get fatter and fatter and buy more and more diet books, but you don't lose weight by buying diet books - you go on a diet. It's easy to read a diet book, but it's hard to go on a diet.
- Pool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence - it's really down to really wanting to make that run.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm on my way to play a round of golf there is an anxiety in me, a feeling of ‘I can't lose today.'
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are going to lose games.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020