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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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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Inside the first 20 to 25 games of the season, we were losing these games, getting beat by two and three points. Over the last 10 games, it seems like we're starting to win these games and putting some good things together.
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The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
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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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As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.
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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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People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.
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Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
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I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.
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Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.
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If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
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I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.
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You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
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Find yourself by losing yourself for others.
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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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This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.
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I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.
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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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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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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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There's such a fine line between defeat and losing.
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I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.
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Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
