Quotes about loss
loss winning thinking
I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court. Andy Roddick
loss love-is rights
The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all. Albert Camus
loss remembers-everything remember
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net. Annie Dillard
loss past
The loss of control you fear is already in the past. Clay Shirky
loss ideas long
If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable. Daniel Kahneman
loss psychology aversion
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
loss pie people
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.
loss would-be accepting
A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.
loss thinking people
When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.
loss masturbation
In masturbation there is nothing but loss. D. H. Lawrence
loss suffering population
And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that. Clare Short
loss men common-sense
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change. Alexander Pope
loss science intellectual
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences. E. O. Wilson
loss years diversity
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
loss thinking phrases
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do. Don DeLillo
loss order worry
Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth- and refuse to give it any more. Dale Carnegie
loss effectiveness savages
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head. Claude Levi-Strauss
loss important steps
Simon Jones was so important and is going to be a big loss. It is a chance for someone like James Anderson to step up to the mark Duncan Fletcher
loss coincidence sometimes
We have to live with it, sometimes these coincidences do happen. They are obviously huge losses but we will just have to get on as we are.
loss caring past
I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss. Douglas Coupland
loss caring thinking
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.
loss league long
I would say the league is viable as long as you have owners who want to continue funding losses. But it's not on the long term a sustainable business model that we're happy to be supporting. It needs to be reset. David Stern
loss rocks rock-and-roll
African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll. David Simon
loss vegetables practice
Eat your vegetables. Brush your teeth. Sweat once in a while. Get plenty of rest. Don't smoke. Laugh more. There are certain tenets to health that are pretty commonsensical and that we all know we should practice routinely. David Perlmutter
loss thinking america
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss. David Hare
loss feelings dignity
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity. Cybill Shepherd
loss past soul
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself. Dave Eggers
loss becoming fractals
Maybe relationships could have fractals, too. And maybe the sense of loss was when you're becoming a fractal of what you once were to each other. David Levithan
loss innocence penalties
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation. Dodie Smith
loss forgiving predator
To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates. Desmond Tutu
loss winning thinking
I've never been one to look at numbers or think about stuff like that. The only numbers I worry about are wins and losses-that's always been my biggest priority. Delmon Young
loss order our-world
Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift. Debbie Macomber
loss winning long
Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close. Andre Agassi