- 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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.
- Nov 07, 2020
It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are guys who have no business being in school, but they're here because this is the path to the NFL. There's no other way. Then there's the other side that says raise the SAT eligibility requirements. OK, raise the SAT requirement at Alabama and see what kind of team they have. You lose athletes, and then the product on the field suffers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what it is about these post-apocalyptic movies where it's like... people really want to see what happens and know what goes on in people's minds when they lose everything. With nothing left of what we had, do people revert back to animals or stay civilized?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
We win, lose, but learn in the defeat.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
It isn't only rich countries that suffer from the effects of tax havens. Developing countries also lose billions of dollars in tax revenues due each year because wealthy individuals and some companies use tax havens to move assets and income offshore.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
My body fat at 173 is five percent, so the rest is just straight water that I lose.
- Win
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you win or lose, no-one dies: you win, or you lose.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020