Losing Quotes
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Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
Judith Viorst
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I find myself only by losing myself.
Paul Ricoeur
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I am the largest market shareholder of clothing in the UK and I am not a destination shop for food. If the clothing market is affected - and it has been - and I hold my market share mathematically, then fine, I am doing no worse than the market is doing, which is exactly the case, but I'm losing revenue.
Stuart Rose
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The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies - not only are you writing this world that you're living in, but you're also simultaneously running a circus, and you can kind of start losing your mind like that.
Mike White
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
Haruki Murakami
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I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.
Mia Farrow
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I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.
Carol S. Dweck
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
Carson McCullers
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When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!
Paul Prudhomme
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You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
Cecelia Ahern
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I have tried to fight the love thing. It's a losing battle.
Nomi Ruiz
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This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Losing will make me a better fighter.
Naseem Hamed
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Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create a situation where the amount demanded is greater than the amount supplied - a shortage - fear of losing customers is no longer as strong an incentive. For example, landlords typically reduce painting and repairs when there is rent control, because there is no need to fear vacancies when there are more tenants looking for apartments than there are apartments available.
Thomas Sowell
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To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.
Jean Chretien
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I'm afraid of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.
Cory Arcangel
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It's no fun losing a tooth or getting your face whacked by a stick.
Eric Staal
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Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.
Brett Hull
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I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with their eyes. And not all that I see is- is attractive. I see an insular people who are- are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined.
Edmund Morris
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Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.
Terence McKenna
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Somehow, something is always suffering. Someone is always losing out somehow. If you pick one kid up, you're not picking the other one up. You just try to minimize those small let-downs because, in a way, life is a series of let-downs from everyone, all the time. We don't mean it, but it happens. So, I just try to minimize that and spread them wide.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.
Gary Newbon
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If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.
Michael Spiller