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“Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.”

Ideas Sometimes Actors Loses Directors Gains

Author:Seth Rogen

“I'm always in this shape, that shape, whatever shape you like the most. I am always in various stages of shapes. If the woman needs to be more soft I'll gain weight and then I'll lose weight for another film that I did where I wanted her to be more wiry. I enjoy using my body as something that helps me get to a character.”

Ifs Needs Character Helping Body Wanted Film Enjoy Loses Stage Shapes Gains Weight Various Help Me Lose Weight

Author:Sandra Bullock

“My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.”

Loses Lines Materials Couple Gains Timing Tag Tweak

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”

Ifs Two Hands Asks Friendship Loses Accepting Judging Friends Gains Catholic Saint Stranger Disputes Request Hippo One Friend Two Friends Christian Friends

Author:Saint Augustine

“It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.”

People Thinking Trying Hard Loses Truth Is Gains

Author:Maya Angelou

“It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.”

Mean Littles Hours Loses Poor Five Happened Months Habit Eating Gains Twenties Pounds Stomach Eating Habits Good Eating

Author:Mila Kunis

“Sometimes the best gain is to lose.”

Life Sometimes Loses Gains

Book:The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life

Source: The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life

“Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.”

May Children Play Games Loses Views Worst Circumstances Gains Optimism Arise Pessimism Disappointed

Author:Thomas Hardy

“For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?”

Ifs World Soul Matter Whole Loses Gains Whole World My Soul What Matters

Author:Craig Thompson

“If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.”

“What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?”

Ifs Men Made Spirit Causes Loses Silence Lord Promise Gains Profit Delight Humble Adversaries

Book:The works of the rev. John Newton

Source: The works of the rev. John Newton

“The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.”

Christian Loses Gains Advantage Nothing To Lose Unbelievers

Author:Lord Byron

“We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.”

Knows Winning Sides Loses Economic Modern Waste Gains Destruction Scales Warfare Win Or Lose Modern Warfare

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.”

Art Given Sides Loses Rich Taken Gains Instinct Acquire Civilized

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.”

Men Seems Loses Common Rich Gains Riches Unjust Adages Rich Man Heirs Iniquity Very True

Author:St. Jerome

“In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything”

Firsts Order Loses Gains

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.”

Desire Loses Wealth Gains Corruption Chiefs Cowardice Breeders

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“When one has the right swing and enthusiasm, selling is not unlike hunting, a veritable sport. To scare up the game by preliminary talk and to know how long to follow it, to lose your gain through poorly directed argument, to hang on to game that finally eludes, to boldly confront, to quickly circle around, to keep on the trail, tireless and keen, till you have bagged some orders, there is some satisfaction in returning at night, tired of the trail, but proud of the days work done.”

Knows Long Done Night Order Games Sports Loses Know How Proud Gains Argument Tired Satisfaction Circles Selling Enthusiasm Scare Hunting Swings Trails Work Done Elude

Author:Carl Sandburg

“We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.”

Loses Gains Slowness Quickness

Author:Seneca the Younger

“My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.”

Ifs Loses Watches Comedy Gains Knees Jerk

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.”

Stories Might Fun Loses Gains Command Macro

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.”

Loses Balance Gains One Direction

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good things, the amount we will gain from export jobs is minimized, and the amount we lose in middle class incomes is maximized.”

Believe Jobs Loses Company Class Middle Amount Intellectual Gains Property Good Things China Stealing Income Middle Class Intellectual Property

Author:Charles Schumer

“The director of The Sopranos told me that, if I wouldn't gain weight, I would lose my job. I didn't look like the girl who ate pasta all day. This was an extra stimulation to fight my eating problems.”

Ifs Looks Problem Jobs Girl Fighting Loses Directors Eating Gains Weight Extras Pasta Stimulation Sopranos

Author:Jamie Lynn Sigler

“Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.”

Wells Running Loses Gains Bases Add Caught Stealing Runners

Author:Bill James

“If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.”

Ifs Believe Stills Dies I Believe Loses Gains I Believe In Believe In God After Death There Is No God Life After Death If There Is A God I Believe In God God And Life

Author:Blaise Pascal

“There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.”

Men Hands Loses Ignorance Gains Nothing New

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.”

Order Christ Loses Gains

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“Risk deters those who see what they could lose. Those focused on the gain see it as a necessary part of their journey, even if the possibility of loss exists.”

Ifs Loses Loss Risk Journey Possibility Gains Focused

Author:Simon Sinek

“So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose as market falls-but investors gain." Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: "Every putt makes someone happy.")”

Mind Helping Fall Loses Hurt Forget Gains Golf Investors Headlines Edits Sellers Buyers Truism Make Someone Happy

Author:Warren Buffett

“The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.”

Men Loses He Man Gains Scholar Tao

Author:Laozi

“What terrorists gain, novelists lose.”

Loses Gains Terrorist Novelists

Book:Mao II

Source: Mao II

“Only when I make movements away from the tribe of indie art and literature. Maybe that's something important for me to keep thinking about. What you gain, what you lose, why and how. Maybe the edge of the page is the place for me. Maybe that's OK.”

Thinking Art Important Literature Loses Movement Pages Gains Edges Tribes

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“We got to make sure that we have the incentives for people to rise and not put them in a position of where they go to work and they lose more than what they gain and they're like this system is terrible.”

People Loses Position Terrible Gains Incentives

Author:John Kasich

“I always tell women, "Get in front of a mirror, know your body." Don't think, "OK, I'm going to lose five pounds and I'm going to gain five pounds." Try to find an acceptance in the present and buy things that make you feel good. I would say, if you're buying less expensive clothes, buy two sizes bigger. They'll hang better.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Trying Two Body Loses Five Fronts Acceptance Clothes Gains Bigger Mirrors Size Your Body Feel Good Expensive Buying Pounds Make You Feel Good Expensive Clothes

Author:Molly Sims

“I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the way, and you might gain other people on the way, that's just the way it is. But nevertheless, if you're driven by something, there is no argument about it; that's what you have to do.”

People Ifs Way Important Might Loses Gains Argument Important Things Driven Nevertheless

Author:Paul Weller

“It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.”

Seems Certain Lost Loses Nice Progress Gains Horse Replaced Automobile Manure

Author:Carl Andre

“It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.”

Ifs Loses Business Too Much Conversation Gains Faults Excess Brevity

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.”

Important Country States House Loses Behinds Rights Involved Gains Our Country Seats Representatives Womens Rights Lacking Legislature House Of Representatives State Legislatures Redistricting

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“If I want to gain weight, I can gain weight. If I want to lose weight, I will lose weight. If I want to be fit, I'll be fit.”

Ifs Want I Can Loses Fit Gains Weight Lose Weight

Author:Guy Burnet

“When you let go, you lose pain and gain insight.”

Pain Loses Letting Go Gains Insight

Author:Alexandra Stoddard

“It's an honour and a privilege to meet people who look at you as their idol , they actually lose weight and gain muscle because of you. I can only tell them thank you for letting me be that person for them.”

People Looks Persons I Can Loses Gains Weight Privilege Muscles Honour Idols Lose Weight Because Of You

Author:Phil Heath

“Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening; he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and what I gained was his supportive energy and the supportive energy of his wife, who was sometimes the one schlepping the equipment or doing the sound.”

Ifs Giving Sometimes Wanted Energy Sound Loses Wife Gains Threatening Equipment Supportive Nothing To Lose

Author:Patti Smith

“When you start with why, which decision you make becomes very easy. It is so hard to do when you may suffer a short term loss or you may lose out on some short term gain. But in the long run it's way more powerful and way more stable.”

Way May Long Hard Running Suffering Easy Term Loses Loss Decision Powerful Gains Stable Long Runs Short Term Decisions You Make

Author:Simon Sinek

“Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.”

Feels Wells Reason Winning Loses Democracy Exercise Gains Upset Loser Restraint

Author:David Frum

“I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.”

Thinking Sometimes Loses Dangerous Smart Gains Very Smart

Author:Van Jones

“In Japanese society, the competitiveness is within a traditional respecting framework. The Japanese will not compete if that competition involves violence or if it is a zero sum gain - if you win, someone has to lose.”

Ifs Winning Loses Violence Gains Competition Traditional Zero Framework Competitiveness

Author:Shinobu Yaguchi

“Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this journey, whereas refugees by definition have lost a tremendous amount - not just country and society, but also more personal things like careers, prestige, status, relatives, identities. This inevitably makes the longing to remember the past even more powerful among refugees, to the point of often debilitating them.”

Country Past Remember Lost Loses Deals Powerful Careers Journey Identity Amount Gains Longing Definitions Immigrants Refugee Prestige Personal Things Remembering The Past

Author:Nguyen Viet Thang

“You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying.”

Trying Loses Gains Nothing To Lose

Author:W. Clement Stone

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