Losing Quotes - Page 18

• For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Winning, Months

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• We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

  Yani Tseng

  Winning, Defeat

  Yani Tseng during Safeway Classic Presented By Coca-Cola Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. August 15, 2012.

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• The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

  Ted Turner

  Winning

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

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• In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

  Stewart Udall

  Population, Growing, Doing Nothing

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• I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.

  Bob Uecker

  Good Day, Bad Day, Thinking

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• I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

  Carrie Underwood

  Fighting, Chocolate, Battle

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• If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Loss, Greatest Fear

  "How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They’re Going Through: Lie or Leave" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

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• More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

  Tom Vilsack

  America, Political, Half

  "Rebuilding and Revitalizing America’s Rural Communities" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

  David Viscott

  Trying, Today, Way

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• The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.

  Dwyane Wade

  Night, Nba, Games

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• When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

  David Walliams

  Children, Book, Hands

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

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• People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

  Orson Welles

  Ideas, People, Capacity

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• Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

  Richard Whately

  Good Morning, Good Day, Up Early

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• Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Good Day, Battle

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 18

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• And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama.

  Juan Williams

  Hurt, Keys, Upset

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• If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Motivated, Knows

  "Serena Williams pre-Wimbledon". The Wimbledon.com Interview, www.wimbledon.com. June 23, 2012.

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• Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

  Venus Williams

  Loss, Games, Bigger

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• I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.

  will.i.am

  Jobs, Home, Pay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  Gary Zukav

  Loss, Affection, Strive

  "Looking Back on Valentine’s Day" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  Germaine Greer

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

  Mae West

  Funny, Girl, Sexy

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West".

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• Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Girlfriend, Hurt

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books

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• The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.

  Miranda July

  Jobs, Writing, Character

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• Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Positive, Sacrifice, Sometimes

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Winning, Games, Chess Game

  Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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