Losing Quotes - Page 16

• The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Thinking, Issues

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• 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.

  Harvey Mackay

  Believe, Risk, Watches

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• Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

  Norman Mailer

  Forever, Facts, Stories

  Esquire, June 1960

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• We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

  James McGreevey

  Anger, Thoughtful, Government

  Farewell address to the state, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2004.

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• People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.

  Jon McGregor

  People, World, Assuming

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• President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

  Jon Meacham

  Names, President, Republican

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• 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.

  Joyce Meyer

  Tired, Emotional, Upset

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• I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.

  Wentworth Miller

  Couple, Home, Weekend

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

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• All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

  Thomas Moore

  Sweet, Lost, Made

  Thomas Moore (1823). “Irish Melodies, National Airs, Sacred Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.229

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• I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

  Andy Murray

  Motivation, Winning, Thinking

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

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• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Winning, Tennis

  Interview with Victoria Coren, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

  Steve Nash

  Black And White, Winning, People

  "Q&A: Steve Nash on Trying Out for Inter Milan, the Dwight Howard Pitch Meeting, and His Favorite TV Dramas". Interview with Zach Lowe, grantland.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Novelists, Literature, Kind

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

  Frances O'Grady

  Strong, Jobs, Impact

  " To strike is a right - stop trying to deter the low-paid from exercising it" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

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• When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Birthday, Women, Thinking

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• Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

  Yoko Ono

  Daughter, Pain, Heart

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• When Americans are worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, Congress and the president must work together to lift our economy and restore hope. That is the course the New Direction Congress will continue in the days and weeks ahead.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Dream, Jobs, Home

  "USA Today: Pelosi – We Need To Do More". www.democraticleader.gov. October 15, 2008.

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• When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'

  Joe Perry

  Work Out, Guy, Too Much

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• Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Sarcastic, Time, Sarcasm

  1978 In the San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan.

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• Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

  Jane Porter

  Happiness, Heart, Mirrors

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• I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Greatest Fear, People, Looks

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• In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Europe, Soul, Haste

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

  Keanu Reeves

  Artist, People, Choices

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

  Keanu Reeves

  Thinking, Choices, Able

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jackie Robinson

  Winning, Thinking, Way

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