Losing Quotes
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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.
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To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.
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This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.
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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.
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I can live with the pain of losing but I can't live with the thought of not having tried my best.
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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 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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Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.
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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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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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People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.
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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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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.
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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.
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I'm afraid of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself.
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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!
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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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Losing will make me a better fighter.
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It's no fun losing a tooth or getting your face whacked by a stick.
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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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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.
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Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
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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.
