Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can’t afford losing one.
So many of my friends are actors, and so many of them are great, and they’re losing jobs to people who have never been in plays before; I understand that sometimes I’m part of the problem. But I’m trying to figure out how to balance it.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can’t ignore the EQ thing; it’s going to kill sales.
I don’t like losing but I’ve mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.
Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that’s important – speed.
If you don’t invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
The lack of judicial accountability exemplified by the lack of a system of selecting judges and of dealing with complaints against them, has indeed led to the system gradually losing its integrity.
How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can’t we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?
I think I sort of blossomed, so to speak, around 17. I started to get hips and put on weight, which I was very happy about. And that’s when I met this agent, who told me I had to lose 10 pounds. I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. I finally got it on – I’m not losing it!’
I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can’t, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don’t get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won’t do that.
There’s nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.
As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon, our treaties have been broken, our culture has been stolen, and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government.
We’re constantly losing – we’re losing time, we’re losing ourselves. I don’t feel for the things I lost.
I am still a lover of paper books. One of my first jobs was in a bookstore, and I still like to be able to write in a margin and feel the paper. Once inside of a digital device, I end up losing things.
Losing is tough.
It just flat-out sucks losing. It really – it doesn’t feel good.
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.
Being brave is what led to three rejections from Yale Law School before being accepted. It led to losing my 2010 race for U.S. Congress, and another failed bid for public office in 2013, this time for public advocate of New York City.
When I am training, I don’t want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.
That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you’re not being spontaneous, you’re just recreating something.
Losing one’s mother to a car crash at age four isn’t a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I’ve come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.
I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.
Whenever I race in the U.K., the crowd just makes such a massive difference, often between winning and losing.
Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.
Our businesses can’t create jobs when they’re losing revenue, and the unemployed can’t apply for jobs when they can’t pay their phone bill.
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
I remember once Manchester United were ahead of Manchester City by eight points and ended up losing it, so everything is possible in this life.
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
I’m sure a lot of players say it, but winning is almost so you don’t lose. The thrill of winning is not as great as the pain of losing.
Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.
My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.
I’m competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don’t really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.
Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can’t win for losing.
I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn’t think about this very much because I’m almost weeping when I think about it.
I was always making new friends, then losing them.
Larry David’s armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won’t win, but he’ll enjoy losing.
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force – then there could very well be a backlash.
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.
One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, ‘What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don’t cry.’
My motivation is paying the mortgage. No joke. Honestly. I still suffer with nerves and think, ‘Why am I putting myself through this torture?’ It’s not actually the love of winning – it’s that building of a partnership with a horse. Just riding horses every day keeps me going. And that threat of losing the mortgage.
It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
Every director, actor, and even producer gets angry on the sets. Why am I the only one being singled out for losing my cool or being talked about vis-a-vis my anger?
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind up in jail. But as a black person, losing your temper can cost you your life. Or insisting on your rights can cost you your life.
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
