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“Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.”

Writing Wells Games Lost Essence Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

Writing Firsts Believe Wells Ideas Hard Games Lost Born Perfect Accepting Emotional Percent Essence Odds Equity Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.”

Play Games Lost Childhood Football Video Family Love

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life. My heart goes out to Linnea and their kids. We've lost a great man who had an incredible impact on his players, his staff and the entire UNC family.”

Men Heart Kids Father Games Lost Parent Teacher Player Influence Teaching Taught Needed My Heart Basketball Bigger Impact Incredibles Coaches Great Men Mentor Staff Always There For Me Unc

Author:Michael Jordan

“I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.”

Thinking Country Reason Games Lost Groove Exporting

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Creating video games is an especially important act. To me, video games are something I both play and create, so they're "special." If I lost one half, the balance would crumble. I need to be able to both play and create games.”

Ifs Needs Important Play Able Games Lost Half Special Balance Creating Video One Half Lost Ones

Author:Hidetaka Suehiro

“May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives but bad receipts for payment in the lower world. Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go, all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game!”

World Giving May Earth Games Lost Virtue Our Lives Pure Gold Traveler Payment Comes And Goes Cursed Receipts

Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

“I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.”

“It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.”

Ifs War Ends Would Be Games Lost Fine Drink Battle Fine Things

Author:David Gemmell

“If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.”

Ifs Thinking Years Hard Lasts Three Games Lost Known Careers Four Hard Work Skills Shooting Staying Gym Last Year Rats Gym Rats

Author:Gilbert Arenas

“They gave high fives to all the players who say like the most obvious textbook answers in the world. It's like after each game, you already know what they're going to say. If they lost: "Ahh ... Tough loss." It's like, come on, how do you guys fall for that? And if they something that they really feel, everyone goes crazy. Like "Oohh! He's spazzing out!" Now he gotta say sorry for saying something he really felt. It's like, Oh lord.”

Ifs Knows World Feels Guy Fall Games Lost Felt Loss Answers Lord Player Crazy Tough Sorry Obvious Textbooks Saying Sorry Tough Loss

Author:Gilbert Arenas

“Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.”

Thinking Life Should Stills Able Spirit Asks Games Lost Fields Should Have Satisfaction Quitting Preparation Temper Contests

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“I don't see how he lost five games during the season.”

Games Lost Five Seasons Yankees New York Yankees

Author:Yogi Berra

“We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.”

Games Lost Felt Victory Dinner Yankees New York Yankees

Author:Lefty Gomez

“I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.”

Knows Giving Littles Guy Games Lost Bits Havens Little Bit Hockey Pretending Nhl Lockers Pep Pep Talk

Author:Tom McVie

“In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.”

Littles Games Energy Lost Cases Struggle Losing Shining Mysticism Manipulation Wraps Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.”

Thinking Next Games Lost Keys Shots Golf Nine Staying Golfers Messed Up

Author:Paul Azinger

“In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.”

Way Reality Age Joy Lying Dies Games Lost Causes Loses Creation Projects Absolutes Video Obsession Breathing Motive Score Joyful Sheer Feedback Sheer Joy Absolute Love False Reality

Author:Donald Miller

“One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.”

Games Lost Pride Gay Balls Lost Love Disco Gay Pride Ball Games Ballgame

Author:Jasmine Guy

“That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.”

Ifs Facts Games Names Lost Loses Balls Sight Customers Ball Games

Author:Ray Kroc

“I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.”

Games Lost Five Proud My Family Championship Teammate Dukes

Author:Grant Hill

“Life's a game made for everyone and love is the prize. So wake me up when it's all over - when I'm wiser and I'm older. All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost.”

Knows Made Games Lost Love Is Findings And Love Prize Wiser Finding Myself

Author:Avicii

“Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.”

Sometimes Pain Games Lost Results Window Pops Video Data Confused Users Updates

Author:Ben Parr

“We lost one (Finals), we won two and we lost another one. (We'll) take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that's just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played (in this series).”

Way Want Years Two Games Winning Lost Four Proud Percent Series Four Years Championship Nba Championships Lost Ones Nba Finals

Author:LeBron James

“I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.”

Kids Used Hate Games Lost Loses Cry I Hate Grades

Author:Chris Bosh

“I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.”

I Can Games Lost Five Baseball Twenties Twenty Five Baseball Player Famous Baseball Baseball Games Sandy Great Baseball

Author:Yogi Berra

“(Don) Sutton lost thirteen games in a row without winning a ballgame.”

Games Winning Lost Thirteen Ballgame

Author:Ralph Kiner

“The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they'd practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they'd never let you forget it.”

Ifs Wells Important Hands Games Lost Forget Cities Keys Beats Balls Bigger Towns Errors Clubs Best Things Things To Do Packs Forget It

Author:Smoky Joe Wood