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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing Quotes
On what losing teaches that winning can't.
Fame comes with its own kind of losing, according to one quote here, whether that costs a person close friendships or precious time with family. A sports-minded line takes the same word further, arguing plainly that people learn more from losing than they ever do from winning.
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- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strong credit markets give companies borrowing options to boost their stock prices while making bearish investors scramble to close out trades before losing any more money, both of which then push the stock market even higher and continue the self-reinforcing bullish cycle.
- Nov 07, 2020
In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.
- Attended
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands and attended gigs: the anti-hipster's defence against 'the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.'
- 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?
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn't believe it. He thought, 'What have I created, a floozy?' But it worked!
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Bad Blood' tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he's attacked by a vampire, he figures it's game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick's blood poison the vampire.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020