One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.
~By Corbin Bleu ~
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
~By Vince Gill ~
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
~By Bear Bryant ~
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
~By Anais Nin ~
The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
~By Vince McMahon ~
I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.
~By Diane Feinstein ~
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!
~By Leslie Nielsen ~
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
~By Robert Frost ~
Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.
~By Howard Dean ~
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
~By Dwayne Johnson ~
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.
~By John Jakes ~
For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
~By Ian Thorpe ~
Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
~By Knute Rockne ~
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
~By A. B. Yehoshua ~
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
~By Anthony Hopkins ~
We're not losing the peace.
~By Frank R. Wolf ~
Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
~By Alex Trebek ~
Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?
~By Bindi Irwin ~
I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.
~By Ken Curtis ~
I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds.
~By Star Jones ~
I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.
~By Elizabeth Dole ~
One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
~By Steve Irwin ~
Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.
~By Chris Brown ~
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
~By Hannes Alfven ~
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.
~By Lucas Grabeel ~
I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.
~By Peter Forsberg ~
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.
~By Marcy Kaptur ~
Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.
~By Sue Kelly ~
The disappointment of losing is huge.
~By Jack Youngblood ~
WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.
~By Tom Brady ~
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.
~By Lynn Davies ~
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
~By Jackie Chan ~
Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.
~By Hal Sutton ~
I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
~By Elizabeth Berkley ~
The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.
~By Drew Carey ~
No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
~By Richard Petty ~
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~
I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
~By Sachin Tendulkar ~
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
~By Billy Corgan ~
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
~By Andy Rooney ~
And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.
~By William Odom ~
We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.
~By Iyad Allawi ~
I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
~By Joe E. Lewis ~
Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.
~By Lou Diamond Phillips ~
I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.
~By Picabo Street ~
I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.
~By Tom Hooper ~
In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.
~By Kelly Miller ~
I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.
~By Jeffrey Tambor ~
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
~By Gary Gygax ~
I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
~By Scott Alexander ~
It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
~By Vince Gill ~
Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
~By Daley Thompson ~
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
~By Barbara Bush ~
Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.
~By Jimmy Connors ~
If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
~By Bjorn Borg ~
Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
~By Mo Udall ~
We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.
~By Rosie O'Donnell ~
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
~By George Brett ~
The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.
~By Peter Thomson ~
There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.
~By Lord Amherst ~
Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.
~By Julie Delpy ~
It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.
~By Matt Drudge ~
This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.
~By Jeffrey Tambor ~
It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.
~By Kate Beckinsale ~
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.
~By Robert Reich ~
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and when you come to the set next time, you can give her a big congratulations.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
~By Melanie Klein ~
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.
~By Mia Farrow ~
When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control.
~By Steve Buscemi ~
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
If you are explaining, you are losing.
~By J. C. Watts ~
I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.
~By Pete Waterman ~
Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
~By Cotton Fitzsimmons ~
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
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.
~By Jane Porter ~
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