Quotes about loss
loss opportunity design
The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity. Jacque Fresco
loss gains
For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss. Hazrat Inayat Khan
loss views risk
From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation. Henry Hazlitt
loss sacrifice self
If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.
loss miracle competition
We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.
loss echoes air
When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn. Henry David Thoreau
loss able way
You need to be able to express your resentment and sense of loss in a way that doesn't damage your partner. Mallory Ortberg
loss cutting winning
A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else. Jack Welch
loss ready stay stop
A loss is a loss. We have to be ready to stop the big inning. We didn't stay away from it tonight.
losses
All losses are tough, ... but this one is tougher. La'Roi Glover
loss upset soul
Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium. Eric Hoffer
loss vigor prejudice
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
loss percent subject
You don't have to have 100 percent coverage, but you can't have a substantial loss in coverage. That is subject to interpretation.
loss suffering vehement
Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them. Friedrich Schiller
loss giving culture
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.
loss simple needs
Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form. Franklin D. Roosevelt
loss men careers
For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll in warships, in transports, in planes, and in men. They are feeling the effects of those losses.
loss mind irreparable
weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure. Jon Krakauer
loss life-is mourn
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned. Lynn Redgrave
loss wings population
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation. Lynn Margulis
loss perfect people
Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed. Ludwig van Beethoven
loss men thinking
Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.
loss magnitude property
The magnitude of the loss when it comes to property is going to be overwhelmed by the magnitude of the loss of life,
loss toughest
This is probably the toughest loss we've had all year.
loss means work
This is something that we have been working for all season. We still have a lot of work to do. We have to take it one at a time. But one loss means you're done. We don't want to get to that point. George C. Williams
losses
This is one of the most disappointing losses I've ever been in.
loss obviously
This is obviously a very disappointing loss for me and our team.
loss skills actresses
No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth. Ellen Terry
loss thinking profound
Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death. Ray Kurzweil
loss winning power
Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort, nobody can judge effort. Because effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else. Ray Lewis
loss stuff firsts
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. Thomas Jefferson
loss times-like-these government
In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.
loss thinking
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking Robert Hass