- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bad customer for my own buildings! If I'm choosing an apartment, I choose one about five or six stories high so that I can see the people, the trees, and the world on the street. Beyond that, I lose contact with the ground!
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're scared to lose rather than excited to win, then that's the wrong way to approach a race.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the Olympics, you have almost nothing to lose, but at the Olympic trials, you have everything to lose. You have the last four years of your life to lose.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.
- You
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you lose, you all lose.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between the fictional Laura of the books and the even more heavily fictionalized girl of the TV show, we've tended to lose sight of the fact that Laura Ingalls Wilder was a real person who was complicated and intense.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.
- Nov 07, 2020