“As someone who's very competitive, I'm someone who abhors losing more than I enjoy winning. In that regard, it hasn't been a great two months, but I think our players' attitude remains pretty resolute.” ThinkingTwoWinningEnjoyAttitudePlayerMonthsLosingRegardRemainsTwo MonthsResolute Author:Skip Prosser
“The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.” MenWarCharacterFactsFeelingsFightingStrongSituationHappenedHe ManBattleLosingRegardConstantNarrativeNovelistsCivil WarProseControlledHistorianVigorStrong FeelingLucidity Author:Walter Millis
“A lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's absolutely how they should regard it. But it's heartening to look at the polls on young people on gay people, gay marriage, and sexual-freedom issues. They're terrific, and that's why the religious right is so desperately trying to lock in their current bare majority for prejudice: because their constituents are dying. They're losing votes every time the ambulance pulls up to the old folks' home. Let's hope it pulls up a little more frequently.” PeopleShouldTryingLooksLittlesPersonsHomeYoungReligiousIssuesDyingGayLosingVotePrejudiceRegardMajorityThreatFolksCurrentsLocksPollsTerrificGay MarriageGay PeopleConstituentsAmbulancePull UpsFolks Home Author:Dan Savage
“We are living in a world where major states and large geopolitical projects have to prove their competitive edge. It is clear, as well, that with regard to the intensifying American-Chinese confrontation and the inert power of a united Europe, Russia has to make up its mind - because it is losing ground as an independent center of power.” WorldMindWellsStatesUnitedClearProveProjectsMajorsLosingEuropeRegardIndependentEdgesRussiaChineseConfrontationGeopolitical Author:Garry Kasparov
“For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.” LongOrderMemoriesChanceForgetOne ThingEventsLosingRegardInstinctPhenomenonLong AgoOblivion Book:The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European Source: The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European
“Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."” PeopleIfsFeelsTwoLosesWealthMoneyNumbersRichHabitLosingRegardWealthyTemptedGet Rich Author:Brian Tracy
“Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.” IfsMenFeelsEvilLostLibertyReturnLosingRegardRevenge Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future.” WishLossPerfectAttitudePlayerLessonsLosingRegardDefeatChessShamefulChess PlayersWrong Attitude Author:Jose Raul Capablanca