Loses Quotes - Page 20

• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Opportunity, Nurse

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

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• Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  May, Chance, Lost

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• I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.

  Chip Conley

  Appreciation, School, Flames

  "The Best $73 I Ever Spent" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2009.

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• When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Law, Failing

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• The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.

  Robert Shaw

  Spiritual, Religious, Art

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• If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."

  Tom DeMarco

  Character, Dark, Technology

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• The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

  Johan Cruijff

  Player, Games, Giving

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• I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

  Jeff Bezos

  Originals, Investors

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• What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

  Frederick Busch

  Pain, Simple, Giving

  Frederick Busch (2013). “The Stories of Frederick Busch”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.

  Teresa of Avila

  Mistake, Saint, Atoms

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• The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

  Michael Ian Black

  Seven Months, Weight, Six

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• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. My make-up. My culture and heritage is a very rich one. So what if it's difficult for people to pronounce? We all learned how to say Schwarzenegger.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Character, Who I Am, Names

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If I am seen as successful, it's all the more reason not to change - not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.

  Michael Palin

  Real, Successful, Track

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• A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.

  Demetri Martin

  Eye, Looks, Idiot

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• If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

  Bertrand Russell

  Joy, Ends, Savour

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Democracy, Republic, Sticks

  "Chalmers Johnson: 'Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 27, 2007.

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• Once a nation's population becomes prosperous and secure, for example through economic security and universal health care, much of the population loses interest in seeking the aid and protection of supernatural entities. This effect appears to be so consistent that it may prevent nations from being highly religious while enjoying good internal socioeconomic conditions.

  Gregory S. Paul

  Religious, Population, Care

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• Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Spring, Thinking, Government

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• They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Night, Expectations, Dawn

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• Do you want to know why marijuana is illegal? Because the drug companies want marijuana to be illegal. You see, if it came down to Prozak versus Marijuana, Prozak would lose.

  Bill Maher

  Marijuana, Drug, Want

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• We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Praying, Exertion, Imaginary

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• Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.

  John McCain

  Als, Republican, Governors

  "Forgive me, Bush asks Catholic voter" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2000.

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  When you lose, talk little. When you win, talk less.

  Tom Brady

  Winning, Littles

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• In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!

  Steven Tyler

  Sight, Order, Sides

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• I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.

  Larry Clark

  Years, Ideas, Down And

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