- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winner Quotes
On choosing to compete, and choosing to keep going.
Winning shows up here less as a single trophy moment and more as an outlook: choosing tougher competition on purpose, and being fine with losing the crowd if it comes to that. One entry follows a young talent becoming an assistant after impressing a director. See I Am quotes for more on identity and drive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.
- Loser
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- Nov 07, 2020
A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.
- Laundry
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is good, and I'm happy, and I don't know that it would be as good if I'd been the winner in Calgary.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marie Curie is in a class all her own as the first female winner and still the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different science categories. An astounding scientist.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because, they're only thinking about one team when that game's over. Before the game, they're talking about two football teams. When the game's over, there's only one winner.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unknown winner of an unknown city, located in an unknown country, is Man.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole career except for the NBA, I've been a winner. I want to get back to that.
- Criterion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.
- Talk
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- Nov 07, 2020