Losing Quotes
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I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.
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I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.
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If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
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It's very simple: saving is a joy; losing is a bummer!
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He said take out your maps, folks, here's where we're winning, here's where we're losing, here's what we have to do.
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That was the worst part about losing someone-finding a place to store all the thoughts and feelings you'd otherwise share with them.
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I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.
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Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
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It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.
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It's not like they've been losing a lot, and we got after them. I love that. I was looking to see if we were going to be tentative or aggressive, and I was happy to see us being aggressive. I hope we see the same thing today.
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I always try to find the positives in losing a match, but it's not always easy.
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Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
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In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.
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I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.
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I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.
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One thing about this game: It's really frustrating. In hockey, if you team's losing, you can start a fight. You can get your frustrations out.
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Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.
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A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.
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I don't play basketball as good as I used to and I hate losing, so I'd rather not be seen in public until I make sure my A game is up.
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I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.
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Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.
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There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
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How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.
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I'd rather go to the playoffs than not go, even with a losing record. Because once you get there, you never know.
