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Author:Deepak Chopra

“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's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.”

Knows Needs Giving Trying Persons Loses Lines Attention Reader Six Research Tools Journalism Journalist Interviews

Author:Isabel Allende

“I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.”

Body Loses Rocks Wave Rhythm Heat Concerts Rock Concerts Body Heat

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.”

Want Children Parent Loses Impossible Childhood Innocence Purity Bottles Purity And Innocence

Author:Pete Docter

“The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.”

Way Mind I Can Loses Fantasy Bed

Author:Patti Smith

“Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.”

People Reason Enjoy Loses Saws Havens Grew Grew Up Southern Accents Flavor Consternation Southern Accent

Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“The best thing that can happen to anybody is to be sacked or made redundant because often that's when you think, "I don't want to become one of the living dead. I haven't got anything to lose, now I can start to follow my own dreams."”

Thinking Want Made I Can Dream Happens Loses My Own Havens Best Things Redundant

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“China didn't want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul - which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless, I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.”

Thinking Want Ideas Soul Government Loses Technology Cutting Expression Regret Edges China Nevertheless Suicidal Freedom Of Expression Cutting Edge

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I'm not classically pretty; I've always been too heavy; I've had thyroid disease and it's very hard for me to lose weight - but I've always had men pursue me. I've always had that 'it' thing. God knows why. Maybe it's pheromones, I don't know.”

Knows Men Hard Loses Disease Weight Heavy Pursue God Knows Lose Weight Thyroid Pheromones

Author:Erica Jong

“In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.”

Way Hard Loses Conditions Weight Camps Holocaust Terrified Skinny Starving Emulate Lose Weight Nonsensical Estrogen

Author:Erica Jong

“Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we have this absurd system in America where health insurance is usually tied to employment. Your income dips. And that's when you get into selling the house.”

Jobs America House Social Loses Support Income Absurd Selling Employment Tied Dip

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after you hear a joke so many times it's not as funny because it loses its surprise or its twist. So I think funny has to do with surprise.”

Thinking Ideas Loses Audience Members Jokes Surprise Reactions Twists

Author:Charlyne Yi

“If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.”

Ifs I Can Different Hours Loses Focus Painting Tired Paint Pushing Sensitivity

Author:Gary Panter

“I like "Rock, Paper, Scissors Two-Thirds." You know. "Rock breaks scissors." "These scissors are bent. They're destroyed. I can't cut stuff. So I lose." "Scissors cuts paper." "These are strips. This is not even paper. It's gonna take me forever to put this back together." "Paper covers rock." "Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks." There should be "Rock, Dynamite with a Cutable Wick, Scissors."”

Knows Should I Can Two Humor Funny Together Stuff Loses Break Forever Cutting Rocks Fine Paper Thirds Destroyed Damage Take Me Bent Break Through Back Together Dynamite Scissors

Author:Demetri Martin

“Most people think, "Life sucks, and then you die." I disagree. I think life sucks. Then you get cancer. Then you go into chemotherapy. You lose all your hair, you feel bad about yourself. Then all of the sudden the cancer goes into remission, and then all of the sudden you have a stroke. You can't move your right side. And then, maybe, you die.”

People Thinking Feels Humor Funny Moving Dies Sides Loses Hair Cancer About Yourself Disagree Strokes Chemotherapy Remission Life Sucks

Author:Denis Leary

“When you eat a lot of spicy food, you can lose your taste. When I was in India last summer, I was listening to a lot of Michael Bolton.”

Humor Funny Lasts Loses Listening Taste Summer India Spicy Last Summer Spicy Food

Author:Jimmy Carr

“If Turkey become a member of the EU, of course Turks would lose a part of this identity, just as Europe would lose a part of its own. It would also be a different Europe then. Accepting Turkey into the EU is an ambitious political endeavor of historical proportions. Europe would become a strong, multi-religious unit.”

Ifs Different Political Courses Strong Loses Religious Accepting Identity Members Europe Historical Proportion Endeavor Ambitious Units Turkeys

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Obviously, every game's big. It's lose or get yourself in a bad situation.”

Bigs Games Loses Situation Bad Situations

Author:Jered Weaver

“Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind.”

Mind Important Winning Loses Win Or Lose Mental Strength Boxing Matches

Author:Wladimir Klitschko

“I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.”

Ifs Wells Looks Might Loses Shapes Weight Bones Math Curves Lose Weight

Author:Christina Hendricks

“Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is what they get. Their only problem is to not lose the budget. I think its a shame because advertising is so boring and it can be so interesting. They should ask more artists to make interesting campaigns.”

Thinking World Want Should Ends Problem Care Artist Asks Loses Interesting Shame Don't Care Boring Campaigns Advertising Budgets Servant Agency Clients Advertising Agencies So Boring

Author:Oliviero Toscani

“If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where people are taking more risks and pushing more boundaries...simply because they have much less to lose.”

People Ifs Film Loses Watches Risk Boundaries Bunch Features Pushing Festivals Shorts Film Festivals

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“Don't say I want to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. Say, you know what I want to lose weight- say 30 pounds in three to six months for instance. But more importantly I want to knock out 20 pushups a day or I want to run a 3K a day and time myself, and try to beat my time every time every week.”

Knows Want Trying Running Three Loses Week Months Six Beats Weight Instance My Time Pounds Six Months Lose Weight

Author:Jackie Warner

“Kids as young as twelve CAN run 90 minutes, and they can train hard to run fast, BUT they lose something in training hard at that early age.”

Hard Running Kids Age Young Loses Minutes Training Train Twelve Train Hard Training Hard

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“I just love to draw. It's very intense for me. The day will just go by like the snap of a finger. A lot of times I'll draw or paint late into the night. When I am really concentrating, I kind of lose track of what I am doing.”

Kind Night Loses Late Draws Fingers Paint Track Intense Snaps Concentrating

Author:Jan Brett

“It's important for me to try to find new ways to express myself, but at the same time, have integrity, and still be me, and not lose myself in the midst of this crazy Rap that I'm in. It's important, it's critical, to just try things out. I think, mainly, it's just me being fearless, and not being afraid to conquer anything that comes in my path, I guess.”

Thinking Way Trying Stills Important Loses Path Crazy Integrity Rap Critical Conquer Fearless Midst New Ways Being Afraid

Author:Fashawn

“The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.”

World Feels Fighting Loses

Author:Meryl Streep

“Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.”

Ifs Should Motivational Life Is Loses Wealth Our Lives Faith In God Cheerful Keep Smiling

Author:Vallabhbhai Patel

“I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed?”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Happens Loses Danger Wind Terrible Ill Things Happen Bags Homeless Terrible Things Paranoia Paranoid Mentally Ill

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand.”

Knows Trying Reason Hate Loses Masters I Hate Clock Pace

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“I feel like a big thing is faith - to never lose my faith and to always stay true to who I am and to never be afraid to show who I am. I think the biggest thing is: Don't ever hide anything.”

Thinking Feels Shows Bigs Loses Who I Am Big Things Stay True

Author:Bailee Madison

“I received a phone call from the chief executive of my principal sponsor [Marlboro], who actually told me that it would be in the interests of the sport if I started to lose races. Which, I mean, just blew my mind.”

Ifs Mind Mean Would Be Sports Interest Loses Race Phones Chiefs Executives Principal Phone Calls Sponsors Chief Executives

Author:Ron Dennis

“I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of the sentence, at the level of the paragraph. Sometimes you lose sight of that - I remind myself to go back and read.”

Thinking Important Sometimes Loses Levels Sight Sentences Accurate Paragraph

Author:Ann Goldstein

“Sometimes I think you can lose the joy in what you do. It becomes a sense of 'I've got to beat him, I've got to beat him,' and you lose your own sense of joy.”

Thinking Sometimes Joy Loses Beats

Author:Paul Rankin

“There's a layer of satisfaction that I get from cooking that is more than the work itself. I think when you're too competitive sometimes you can lose the joy of what you do.”

Thinking Sometimes Joy Loses Cooking Satisfaction Layers

Author:Paul Rankin

“Training can be monotonous, and it is hard work, but you never lose sight of why you are doing it. Every single effort of every single session counts in the months and years leading up to a big event.”

Years Hard Bigs Loses Effort Events Hard Work Months Training Sight Session Monotonous Big Events

Author:Chris Hoy

“On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself.”

Giving Easy Loses Constant Track Caught Caught Up Sensory Overload

Author:Chuck Ragan

“I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.”

Thinking Humans Kind Loses Perfect Aspect

Author:Jenny Lewis

“I wouldn't necessarily want to be a big muscular guy. It's nice to be gorgeous whether you're male or female assuming you don't lose whatever else you have.”

Want Bigs Guy Loses Nice Female Assuming Males Gorgeous

Author:Woody Allen

“I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can't do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I'm very interested in life and you don't want to lose that.”

Want Needs Would Be Able Used Loses Rooms Style Used To Be Need A Change You Need To Change

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.”

Ifs Feels Believe Ends I Believe Loses Like You Computer Conscience Deserve Program Grateful Plus Be Grateful Columns Minus

Author:Jim Carrey

“If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.”

Ifs World Ends Bigs Happens Loses Differences Lines Half Economic Century Species Stability

Author:E. O. Wilson

“We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others and stand in the center of our power. Translation is a theme. Fear and courage are a theme.”

Voice Loses Share Honor Hopefully Theme Translations Fear And Courage

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.”

Way Humans Earth Together Water Community Loses Human Beings Forget Animal Levels Planets Deeper Stillness Gravity Living On Disconnected

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.”

Ifs Trying Littles Two Motivational Loses Imagination Ideals Sight Extremes Immense Idealism Brutes Practicality Two Extremes

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.”

Ifs Men World Inspirational Whole Christian Desire Jesus Loses Religious Poor Lord Rich One Thing He Man Materials Regard Remains Whole World Heavenly Orthodox Material Things

Author:Ignatius Bryanchaninov

“Do not lose your temper with those who sin. Do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbor and judging it, as we usually do. Everyone will give an answer for himself before God. Especially, do not look with evil intention on the sins of those older than you, with whom you have no business. But correct your own sins, your own heart.”

Inspirational Giving Looks Heart Christian Passion Evil Loses Religious Sin Answers Judging Intention Neighbor Orthodox Temper Noticing

Author:John of Kronstadt

“When you want to direct someone toward the good, first put him at peace bodily and honor him with words of love. For nothing inclines such a man to shame and induces him to cast of his vice and be changed for the better as do bodily goods and honor, which he sees in you. Then, with love tell him a word or two, and do not be inflamed with anger toward him. Do not let him see any cause of enmity toward you. For love does not know how to lose its temper.”

Knows Men Want Inspirational Firsts Doe Two Christian Causes Loses Religious Know How Changed Honor Direct Shame Casts Vices Orthodox Goods Temper Enmity Incline

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

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