The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
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 ~
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
~By Charles Bukowski ~
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 ~
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 ~
Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay.
~By Doc Hastings ~
We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep 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 ~
The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
~By Marla Maples ~
When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.
~By Drew Carey ~
There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
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 ~
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
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 ~
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
~By William Glasser ~
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
~By Adnan Pachachi ~
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 do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.
~By Michael Owen Bruce ~
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.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.
~By Boy George ~
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
~By Adam Smith ~
There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.
~By M. Night Shyamalan ~
At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
~By Bill Tilden ~
I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
~By Jay Roach ~
The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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 ~
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
~By Henry Miller ~
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 ~
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
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 ~
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
~By Carol Burnett ~
I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.
~By Tina Modotti ~
Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.
~By Helene Cixous ~
We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.
~By Serena Williams ~
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.
~By Matt Drudge ~
The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
~By Bear Bryant ~
We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.
~By Paul Hawken ~
Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
~By James Hillman ~
I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.
~By Gerry Cooney ~
It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
~By Waylon Jennings ~
We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
~By Tony Curtis ~
As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.
~By Jo Ann Emerson ~
I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
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 ~
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 ~
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
~By Alexander Graham Bell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.
~By Art Rooney ~
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
~By Ludwig Borne ~
If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.
~By James Forrestal ~
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 ~
Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
~By Beah Richards ~
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 ~
Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
~By Gene Mauch ~
I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
~By Linda Blair ~
If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.
~By George Whitefield ~
Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
~By John McGahern ~
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
~By Donald Trump ~
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
~By Anais Nin ~
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
~By Peter Conrad ~
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
~By Jackie Chan ~
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 ~
You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.
~By Artur Davis ~
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 ~
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 ~
When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.
~By Lord Amherst ~
Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
I never think about losing.
~By Lou Ferrigno ~
That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.
~By Marcy Kaptur ~
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 ~
I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.
~By Mike Ditka ~
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
~By Early Wynn ~
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
~By Jean Kerr ~
If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
~By Bjorn Borg ~
In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.
~By Zach Wamp ~
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.
~By Hilary Rosen ~
I'm sure Alex will be having to get the masseurs in to work on those legs. You feel tired when you're losing but when you are winning it gives you that bit of an edge.
~By Graham Roberts ~
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 will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
~By Alan Cranston ~
The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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