Loses Quotes - Page 24

• The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

  Bent Larsen

  Book, Lucky, Too Much

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• Ageing footballers never lose their commitment; they just lose their pace

  Gary Lineker

  Commitment, Pace, Ageing

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• Whomever compares him or herself to another, always loses.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Compare

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• Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams. If your fears win, you lose.

  Robert G. Allen

  Dream, War, Heart

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• Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Mistake, Men, Evil

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• Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Hate, Hypocrite, Thinking

  Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

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• When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

  Bob Dylan

  Secret, Invisible

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• ...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Sole, Deprived

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• Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough
  than lose interest.

  James Poniewozik

  Fighting, Citizens, Mud

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• In the end, we have nothing to lose by opening our hearts.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Heart, Nothing To Lose, Ends

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• It is very easy to slowly lose your self confidence in a business where rejection is a possibility with every trial. It is a business after all and there are so many amazing actors out there that you'll never really see or hear of simply because they don't have someone of influence backing them.

  Irena A. Hoffman

  Self Confidence, Rejection, Actors

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• When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen.

  Raul Garcia

  Blood, Brain, Monsters

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.

  Laura Poitras

  Powerful, Smart, Expectations

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• If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.

  Katie Uhlaender

  Attention, Pay, Losing Yourself

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Winning, Long

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.

  Ken Griffey, Jr.

  Winning, Next Day, Next

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• Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sleep, Opportunity, Drug

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• We [Democrats] have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right.

  William J. Clinton

  Strong, Insecure, People

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• Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

  Amos Oz

  Cutting, Longing

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• Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Taken, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

  Bill Gates

  Decision, Made, Tempting

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• He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Simplicity, Soul

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• Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy

  Seth Klarman

  Worst Enemy, Clients, Remember

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• If you set goals for yourself, and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them; it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It's physically possible to lose weight. It's physically possible to exercise more.

  Daniel Goldstein

  Exercise, Self, Discipline

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• One should never lose hope. Homosexuality can strike any straight man at any age.

  Roger Peyrefitte

  Men, Age, Never Lose Hope

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