I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, ‘Wow, that’s a really wonderful man.’
That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger, and you can’t see them in the supermarket or wherever. It’s a terrible, terrible moment… the most unimaginable horror.
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
We should be in constant evolution and adapt to the new without ever losing our essence or our integrity.
Like I always say, it’s not how many great plays you make; it’s how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn’t offset the interception or the fumble.
Challenging someone is good. You need to do it. Sometimes they don’t even realize you’re doing it, like when you joke with a goalie, ‘What’s wrong today? You losing it?’
That’s the whole spiritual life. It’s learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
We are losing privacy at an alarming rate – we have none left.
I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it’s like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.
America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we’re losing part of ourselves.
Certain scripts require an ensemble cast. I’m absolutely fine with that. I will not deprive myself of the chance to be part of a good film because of insecurities or fear of losing my market. But my role must be well-defined.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
It’s okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that’s what makes life interesting.
I’ve got quite a good poker face. I’m known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I’m feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
I wasn’t losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.
Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they’re largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing ’37 years of emotional baggage.’
We’re losing all kinds of white-collar jobs, all kinds of jobs in addition to manufacturing jobs, which we’re losing by the droves in my state.
When I start a book, it’s every day. There is no Saturday, no Sunday. It’s every day, because if I stop one day, I’m afraid of losing the book and losing the energy.
Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It’s so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you’re truly in the moment and you’re feeding each other, it’s such an exciting thing to be a part of.
I just love sport; I love competing. I’m obsessed by it, to be honest. I can accept losing, sure, no question, but it just drives me crazy. Just ask my wife.
If winning or losing is going to define your life, you’re on a rough road.
Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.
In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you’re no longer a fan. I don’t root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.
Everything about ‘Hugo’ to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain ‘essences of Dad.’
If you make a mistake, your opponent can punish, and you end up losing the game.
Perseverance doesn’t always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing.
I don’t regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there’s this film-noir character of a woman who’s sort of losing it in a room.
One of the things you hear about when studying the nature of fanaticism is that a lot of the time, people don’t start as fanatics. They shift and evolve into that state. That’s a process, a systematic process of losing your identity and sense of self.
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
When you’re winning, anything you say has value. When you’re losing, the less you say, the better.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
The danger is we’re losing sight of what women really want to wear.
Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can’t afford and healthcare they can’t avail themselves of.
Losing my sister to cancer was… That was the worst thing in the world, man.
At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.
Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, ‘Don’t stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.’
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can’t help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.
Bambi has a profound effect on children because it’s about losing your mother.
I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.
I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn’t believe it. He thought, ‘What have I created, a floozy?’ But it worked!
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I’m an actor, so I’m in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.
The sting of losing is bad.
Investing in renter’s insurance is hugely worthwhile. It protects you from a whole load of financial pitfalls around your home. Your home should be the center of your sense of security – not the cause of you losing financial security.
A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we’re completely living in it.
