Use It Or Lose It Quotes

• Is it true that if you don’t USE it you LOSE it?

  Steve Carell

  Physical Therapist, Virgins, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Andy". "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", 2005.

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• That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Waste, Physicians

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• Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Mind, Failing

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• Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.

  Richard Bach

  Reality, Thinking, Perspective

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day.

  Norman Doidge

  Exercise, Long, Brain

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.108, Penguin

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• The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Past, Use Of Knowledge, Use

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.

  Julian Cope

  Use, Cliche, Loses

  "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.

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• What we need is to use what we have.

  Susan Sontag

  Needs, Use, Action

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• If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Spiritual, Retirement, Lying

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• It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Way, Nations, Use

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.29, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Speech, Want, Use

  'Essays' 5 'The Use of Language'

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• When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

  Edgar Cayce

  Opportunity, Use, Prepared

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• Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Hands, Legs

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• Time-Use it or lose it. Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

  Leo Kennedy

  Trying, Way, Snowflake

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• Perspective - Use It or Lose It.

  Richard Bach

  Perspective, Use, Loses

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

  Samuel Beckett

  Solitude, Three Things, Inability

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.389, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We have more than we use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3084, Delphi Classics

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• Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Prejudice, Fool

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• The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

  Adrienne Rich

  Success, Dream, Feminist

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Humor, Want

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• With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Exercise, Space, Needs

  "Can We Make It To Mars?". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2011.

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• That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Insulting, Quotations, Use

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• Don't fight forces, use them.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Fighting, Fighter, Architecture

  "Your private sky". Book by Buckminster Fuller, p. 17, 2001.

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• I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.

  Joan Collins

  Summer, Years, Swim

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