Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Canfield

I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be, it might be homelessness, whatever, but lately I've realized that success is "fulfilling your soul's purpose."

J. D. Salinger

I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.

It was a very important win. After (Thursday's) loss we were kind of down all night. Nobody was talking.

It was a real tough loss to swallow, but you can't put it on one guy. We had a lot of penalties and mistakes.

It's a disappointing loss because I thought we could take these guys. It was a frustrating game.

Frank Lloyd Wright

It's a question of disappearing into the background. We would suffer the loss of dilution.

Jim Calhoun

It was one of the most disappointing losses we've had in a long time, mainly because of (the start).

They walked all over us. A loss like this you start to talk about pride. As a team, as individuals, we got embarrassed out there.

Steve Tanner

They have trouble (offensively), too. Their losses have been similar to ours.

They will make up at least 70 percent of those losses by the end of the first quarter next year, unless there is another strike.

It's quite a loss with him gone. I didn't meet a person who didn't like him.

For a Little League, that's devastating. It's not like we have that much money sitting around. So, for a loss like this to occur, to replenish it is going to take donations.

It's to mourn the loss of our checkbooks.

It's not three losses in a row. It's 15 in a row. It is painful. It is ugly. It hurts. It is tough on everybody.

It's a loss for the voters of Florida.

Madeleine L'Engle

For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.

Lucy Powell

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

Lou Gerstner

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

John Foxe

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.

John F. Kennedy

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

Jonathan Franzen

The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.

Jonathan Bennett

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

Jonah Lehrer

How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so that an individual can try to figure out why he's feeling what he's feeling. If the particular feeling makes no sense—if the amygdala is simply responding to a loss frame, for example—then it can be discounted. The prefrontal cortex can deliberately choose to ignore the emotional brain.

Jon Stewart

Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.

Joyce Carol Oates

I feel a terrible loss when I (eventually must) complete a work of fiction.

Paramahansa Yogananda

What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul.

Ovid

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Peter Garrett

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

Pauline Kael

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

Paul Valery

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Paul Tudor Jones

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.