“With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.” WayFilmLosesPayAttentionAudienceTheaterStuckEnormousMediumsSeatsPaceRestless Author:Emma Donoghue
“There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."” WayLosesLossRoomsResponsibilityMinutesTalentAmountWasteCorporateEmployeeProductiveFamily Responsibility Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.” WorldWayMeanRealFeelingsTurnsStuffLosesSimpleCompassionAwarenessGreedTricksUselessAbsurditySpiritedMean SpiritedReal FeelingsMidasUseless Stuff Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got it figured out you stop growing and maybe even lose something.” WayFeelsWritingBelieveI BelieveLosesGrowingLike You Author:Brandi Carlile
“A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).” WayActionLosesLossEach DayFollowersTaoArriving Author:Laozi
“The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand.” IfsWayDoneHandsLife IsDiesLosesAbilityPayAttentionMilitaryTaughtTasksImportanceAccomplishMissionsPay AttentionTimelyCompletingLieutenantsTimelinesTask At Hand Author:Don Young
“The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.” KnowsWayWantInterestLosesToo Much Author:William Matthews