It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.
Sport’s hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
The thing you can’t let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn’t a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.
Losing a family member is extremely difficult for anyone to take. But the normal reaction is to want to get back to your work as soon as you can.
There’s definitely still a lot of hurt from losing my guys or the fact that I got out and I felt like it wasn’t my time yet.
I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.
One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It’s a revolving door.
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone – and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff – a perilous loss.
No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.
Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I’m ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that’s the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.
The way I’ve always approached it is if we’re winning and people want to talk about me, it’s fine. If we’re losing, then you really get on me, and I’ll definitely try to be better to help us win. But I’m fine with it, as long as we’re winning and we’re playing good basketball.
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale… I often feel as if I were dead… I seem to be losing my mind.
I don’t like losing. I don’t like to be in a losing position, and I show this a lot. I demonstrate on the pitch.
It’s pretty tough to play some good footy when your team is always losing.
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.
Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity… but there’s a feeling that life is interconnected, that there’s life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
Losing to a Hall of Famer, a legend, Manny Pacquiao, it is what it is. It was a great fight and the fans loved it. I lost a title but I gained respect with how I fought that night.
After losing Dad, there was the idea that none of us have forever. It really affects you. It makes you want to live each day as if it’s your last.
We are losing our country and the freedoms we have enjoyed. As Bible-believing Christians, we are the ones who must take action before it’s too late.
The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.
There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.
Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights – cultural, civil, social, economic, and political.
For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.
But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.
Mel Gibson is losing it. I don’t know how people still supporting this dude’s movies like it’s all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don’t support any of his movies.
My worst habit is probably that I’m extremely messy. I’m a big scatter-brain – I’m always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.
We’re going to have to look very seriously at what we’re doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
Whether you’re winning or losing, you’ve constantly got to be changing.
I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that’s probably the biggest lie. It’s not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it’s like losing a piece of your heart.
The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.
I’ve never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.
Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it’s a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
Before Wenger came, Arsenal celebrated 1-0 and were based on defensive solidity. With Arsene, joy came from attacking, with players of good standing. And the perfect combination was the Invincibles. But over time, only technical quality and offensive freedom were taken care of, losing the defensive structure.
If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.
You don’t go into coaching if you’re not willing to step into that moment and go, ‘OK, this is what it’s going to take, and this is why you do it.’ Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?
I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think that’s wonderful. To be able to lose it, in many ways, is just great fun to do.
My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can’t forget losing. I never will.
Think about it – just getting rid of the fat doesn’t get rid of the toxins, which are reabsorbed into your body. This creates a vicious cycle. Losing weight without learning to eliminate chemicals is like a merry-go-round. And it’s why dieting doesn’t work.
I would love not to be losing my hair.
Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X’s into both sides of my pick with something sharp, like a dart.
I like winning or losing, failing or succeeding on my own merit.
We are losing the Jewish people in the Diaspora.
We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that’s losing consciousness, that’s getting harder.
Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love – falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
A wise person does not undertake any business with the risk of losing the capital money in search of making a profit.
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.
Like many other people, I grew up with so much adversity and negativity, it would have been easy to get overwhelmed and give in. But by turning negatives into positives, losing into a journey to winning, I have been able to overcome the odds that were against me and change them into motivation for my success.
I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.
I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.
If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.
All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.
You don’t need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.
