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“Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.”

People Mean Children Seems Winning Loses Winner Loser Gifted Positive Things Gifted Children

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.”

Stills Seems Left Loses Honest Folks

Author:Kin Hubbard

“Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.”

Littles Seems Loses Half Rich Cutting Dust Diamond Verses Crude Polished

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.”

Way Seems Suffering Speak Loses Wonder Stupid Speech Prepared Various Oppression Nerves Speakers Worms Tombs Conqueror Delivering

Book:Selected works on the art of writing

Source: Selected works on the art of writing

“As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy.”

Reality Seems Age Fall Grows Loses Path Shadow Drawing Senses Old Age Reality Of Life Crude Poignancy

Book:Stories and Legends

Source: Stories and Legends

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.”

Ifs Long Seems Happens Loses Laughter Happenings Fades Kinder

Book:The Writings of Will Rogers

Source: The Writings of Will Rogers

“Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.”

Wells Persons Doe Different Seems Action Loses Acting Moral Focus Authority Standards Expectations Conscience Concern Being True Acquire Consideration Sentiments

Author:Stanley Milgram

“Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?”

Source: No Contest: The Case Against Competition

“Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the Almighty. Most people seem willing to accept Darwinism as long as they don't have to believe in nothing but Darwinism. Thus, the strident tub-thumping for absolute atheism by evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins, whom the new issue of Discover Magazine rightly criticizes as "Darwin's Rottweiler," is self-defeating.”

People Believe Long Self Seems Force Loses Accepting Issues Atheism Willing Absolutes Magazines Criticize Almighty Supporter Darwinism Biologist Tubs Rottweilers

Author:Steve Sailer

“Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of man ascends and descends, wanders off into mazes. At times the trail seems to lose itself in the wilderness of human passion and folly. But inch by inch it goes forward with halting steps.”

Men Humans Seems Passion Loses Steps Progress Movement Wander Folly Wilderness March Inches Trails Pathways Mazes Human Progress Devious

Author:Joseph Alexander Leighton

“It seems like we're doing just enough to lose by a little.”

Littles Enough Seems Loses Hockey Nhl

Author:Darryl Sutter

“The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while it is not possible to disprove an ultimate purpose, there does not seem to be any evidence for it. This is not to say, of course, that there is no purpose in life at all: we all make our own purposes as we go through life. And life does not lose its value simply because it it not going to last forever.”

Giving Humans Doe Seems Lasts Purpose Values Courses Loses Common Existence Forever Atheism Evidence Ultimate Function Positive Atheism Purpose Of Life Human Existence

Author:Barbara Smoker

“I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth. Who won't accept deception instead of what is truth. It seems we lose the game, before we even start to play. Who made these rules? We're so confused. Easily led astray.”

Made Play Seems Games Loses Accepting Struggle Youth Deception Confused So Confused

Author:Lauryn Hill

“To rest in God's power when your own weaknesses seem to be screaming at you? That's grace! To be confident in who God is for you when you feel overwhelmed by odds against you? That's peace! To stand alone against massive intimidation? That's trust! To know beyond any shadow of a doubt that God is bigger, and therefore you cannot lose? That's the faith that moves mountains!”

Knows Feels Seems Moving Loses Doubt Grace Mountain Weakness Shadow Bigger Massive Odds Overwhelmed Intimidation Stand Alone Be Confident Move Mountains Who God Is Odds Against You

Author:Graham Cooke

“To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.”

Wells Seems Might Loses Claims Affliction Bereavement Eccentric Presumption

Book:The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

“the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.”

Knows Want Seems Politics Winning Loses Know How Success And Failure Women In Politics

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.”

“The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.”

World Children Seems Values Fall Loses Pieces Mouths Faults Fruit Appreciation Tongue Sheer Falling To Pieces

Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin

“In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.”

Ifs Giving Seems Loses Prayer Doors Cry Listening Letting Go Giving Up Driven Hold Fast Never Let Go

Author:Jane Frances de Chantal

“You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.”

Seems Might Night Loses Sleep Pity

Author:Eleanor Porter

“In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.”

People Seems Loses Imagination Creative Logic Murder Urges Rome Submit Zest

Book:Of Diamonds and Diplomats

Source: Of Diamonds and Diplomats

“If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to escape notice, it seems to me that this applies to events in life, numberless happenings, perhaps the basic ones, which we, saturated in detail and hurrying through subdivisions, lose sight of.”

Ifs Seems Loses Events Happenings Sight Difficulty Simplicity Details Obvious Hurrying Saturated Events In Life

Author:Mary Butts

“While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.”

Long Helping Seems Might Running Loses Healthy Solutions Weight Diets Long Runs Lose Weight Fads Quick Fixes Fad Diets

Author:Daphne Oz

“If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.”

Ifs World Hard Whole Wisdom Seems Jobs Beautiful Loses Rocks Planets Tired Patterns Dirt Day To Day Beautiful Life Day Life Day To Day Life

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“if your subject is an actor, he or she will also be shorter in person than they appear onscreen. This, also, you must keep to yourself. Even if you think you are giving their lack of height a positive spin, you aren't. 'You always seem larger than life in photos, but it's nice to see that in person you're just like us' might seem like a compliment, but what a star hears is 'You're stumpy, and you will lose jobs to taller people.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Persons Seems Might Jobs Actors Stars Loses Nice Subjects Height Compliment Sensitivity Larger Than Life Keep To Yourself

Author:Jancee Dunn

“By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.”

People Facts Seems Eye Humanity Loses Public Life

Author:Abigail McCarthy

“When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.”

Looks Matter Seems Law Evil Left Loses Justice Views Habit Citizens Gains Advantage Errors Point Of View Rulers Caution Disobedience

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. . . . Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”

Knows Giving Writing Wells Book Play Seems Lost Water Loses Safe Arise Impulse Destructive Ashes Something Better Shameful Keep To Yourself

Author:Annie Dillard

“We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age.”

Ifs Men Mind Long Stills Seems Running Age Action Young Courses Left Loses Risk Dog Easier Defeat Obligation Old Age Chiefs Young Man Lions Consolation

Author:Elmer Davis

“It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Should Seems Care Kids Used Mother Guy Lost Fun Loses Too Much Trouble Crazy Type Excuse Damn Yellow Gloves No Excuses Caring Too Much

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.”

Book Seems Loses Food Fool Machines Separation Diets Devices Slot Machines Roulette

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“It seems that researchers at Colorado University say wine may help people lose weight. It's not the wine directly that causes the weight loss, it's all the walking around you do trying to find your car.”

People Trying May Helping Seems Causes Loses Loss Car Walking Weight Wine University Weight Loss Researchers Lose Weight Colorado

Author:Jay Leno

“The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. Many people are aware of these principles, but very few can put them into practice. Every day I hear someone say, 'I'm to fat. I need to lose twenty-five pounds, but I can't. I never seem to improve.' I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak. I can lose ten to forty pounds rapidly, easily, painlessly, by simply setting my mind to it.”

Source: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder

“People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.”

People Ifs Years Seems Past Loses Gone Century Events Succeed Remembered Remarkable Over It Velocity Past Events Years Gone By

Book:The Confessions of an Elderly Lady

Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady

“The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.”

Source: Authentic Happiness

“Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.”

Years Seems Faces Loses Half Five Four Bears Average Stranger Customers Loyalty Corporations Experts Five Years Employee Statistics Investors Transactions Business Relationship

Author:Fred Reichheld

“When one has faith that the spring thaw will arrive, the winter winds seem to lose some of their punch.”

Seems Loses Wind Spring Winter Have Faith

Author:Robert Veninga

“The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.”

Looks Littles Art Seems Night Loses Gone Security Shots Importance Cameras Memorable Thrown Cinematography

Author:Rob Zombie

“Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.”

Source: The Wrong Stuff

“Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.”

Men World Ideas Moments Seems Pain Beautiful Loses Pleasure Bears Sight Misery Lovely Trials Miserable Love Life

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.”

“The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.”

Knows Enough Seems Loses Position Musician

Author:Danger Mouse

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