Losing Quotes
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A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.
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Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent rage, self-pity, longing, heartbreak, cynicism, without losing the ability to think about what was happening to him. That took courage, I thought, living with the suffering in a mindful way, as an artifact of being, neither good nor bad.
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When I was young and didn't have money, I liked gambling because winning and losing was fun for the rush of it. The amount of money that I would have to put down now to get that rush, there is no f'ing way I'm going to do it. It's just stupid. I would rather get that rush some other way.
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
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What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.
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There’s always a but when you’re losing an argument.
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I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.
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I have tried to fight the love thing. It's a losing battle.
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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
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I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
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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.
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It’s possible that some of us cannot help losing ourselves in the sorrows of other people’s stories.
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By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
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Win or lose, everybody gets what they want out of the market. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.
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Startups should be, if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero, you're not making any money, you're not losing any money.
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As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
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Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
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Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
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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.
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I find myself only by losing myself.
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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.
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Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.
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In my own experience, both personally and professionally, I've learned that you don't wait to confront reality. It doesn't get easier. It doesn't get better. And, in some cases, if you don't get the relevant information from people and act quickly, you start losing options. You're into damage control.
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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.
