“Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.” IfsLooksDoeSelfSometimesMomentsShowsWinningLossWillingLosingPerformancesBlameLuckWho You AreValuableComplainingBehaveInternalsDefiningBad Luck Author:Lance Armstrong
“Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.” MindMomentsHumorSuccessAttentionFocusFailurePerspectiveBalanceLuckLabelsPresent MomentConstructsGood LuckSuccess And FailureGood Humor Author:Tom Bergeron
“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?” HumansMomentsHappensArtistCertainBitsSecretDoubtHuman NatureLuckBlowSupremePsychologicalPhrasesNo DoubtNow And ThenQuotationsCunningHammersPinsBorrowedEmulateTemptingCondiments Author:Ethel Smyth