Lose Quotes

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

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.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

I don't think anybody was ever up 6-2 and would lose the tiebreaker.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.