Quotes about loss
loss emotional weight
There's a huge emotional component to weight loss. Carnie Wilson
loss frustration intellectual
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself. Alain de Botton
loss science men
I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met not a few men, who... have often thus been deterred from experiments or observations which would have proven servicable. Charles Darwin
loss intellectual nuisance
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances. Charles Babbage
loss winning lost-friendship
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is. Blaise Pascal
loss thinking christianity
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer Bridget Riley
loss winning player
The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.
loss thinking concrete-jungle
I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces. Barry Goldwater
loss teach values
Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things. Arthur Schopenhauer
loss perfection individuality
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.
loss emotional risk
My experience with novice traders is that they trade three to five times too big. They are taking 5 to 10 percent risks on a trade when they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks. The emotional burden of trading is substantial; on any given day, I could lose millions of dollars. If you personalize these losses, you can’t trade. Bruce Kovner
loss trade ifs
If you personalize losses, you can't trade.
loss opportunity soul
A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. Brian Weiss
loss men political
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist. Edmund Burke
loss people needs
Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper. Eckhart Tolle
loss opportunity soul
More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress
loss gains ifs
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies. Boris Pasternak
loss hair way
Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human. Bruce Willis
loss games two
You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened. Brett Favre
loss who-i-am want
If I were to make a list, I would include the interceptions, the sacks, the really painful losses. Those times when I've been down, when I've been kicked around, I hold on to those. In a way those are the best times I've ever had, because that's when I've found out who I am. And what I want to be.
loss blood unexpected
How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss. Brandon Sanderson
loss thinking blessing
Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss or blessing? A season of activity or hibernation? A season of growth or incubation? You may think you're on a detour, but God knows the best way for you to reach your destination. Barbara Johnson
loss losing foolish
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. Barbara Kingsolver
loss winning order
He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it. Augustus
loss evil prejudice
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of. Augustus Hare
loss dark doe
And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper. Augusten Burroughs
loss excited moments
So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.
loss sick missing
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.
loss ears bigs
Princes have big ears which hear far and near. Elizabeth I
loss may rewards
Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.
loss people feelings
Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated. Eli Roth
loss use way
I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself... Ben Stein
loss disaster reasonable
Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact. Beah Richards