That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
~By Karl Urban ~
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
~By Iris Chang ~
Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
~By Ninette de Valois ~
We're not losing the peace.
~By Frank R. Wolf ~
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
~By Elizabeth Bishop ~
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.
~By Julius Streicher ~
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 ~
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
~By Scott Alexander ~
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 ~
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 ~
My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.
~By Mark Spitz ~
In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~
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 ~
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
~By Peter Conrad ~
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 is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.
~By Christine Lavin ~
All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.
~By Luther Vandross ~
There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
~By Hart Crane ~
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 ~
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 ~
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
~By Ring Lardner ~
I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.
~By Gerry Cooney ~
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
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 ~
In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.
~By Kelly Miller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.
~By Aretha Franklin ~
I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
~By Elizabeth Berkley ~
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 ~
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 ~
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
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 ~
Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
~By Bill Tilden ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
~By Mo Udall ~
I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.
~By Chris Brown ~
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
~By Fannie Flagg ~
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
People bitch about losing their anonymity and then get insulted when someone doesn't recognize them from whatever success they've had.
~By Casey Affleck ~
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
~By Lance Armstrong ~
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 ~
I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it.
~By Lawrence Halprin ~
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.
~By Juan Williams ~
I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
~By Robert Frost ~
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 ~
If you are explaining, you are losing.
~By J. C. Watts ~
Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
~By Vin Scully ~
I never think about losing.
~By Lou Ferrigno ~
I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
~By Leo Kottke ~
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
~By George Borrow ~
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
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 ~
I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.
~By Robbie Fowler ~
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 ~
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
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 ~
The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.
~By Drew Carey ~
I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.
~By Pete Waterman ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'
~By Robert Byrd ~
We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
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.
~By Jackie Robinson ~
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 ~
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
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 ~
Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
~By Tom Wilson ~
Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.
~By Craig Armstrong ~
So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.
~By Jay Inslee ~
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
~By David Mamet ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing.
~By Dominique Wilkins ~
The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
~By Vince McMahon ~
Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.
~By Ted Kulongoski ~
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 ~
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
~By Al McGuire ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
~By Donald Trump ~
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 ~
Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.
~By Charles Hamilton Houston ~
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 ~
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 ~
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
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 ~
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
~By Ludwig Borne ~
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 ~
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