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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

“I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.”

Ifs Way Seems Winning Wise Imagine Genius Not Sure Wizards Funny But True Gallant Swordsman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.”

Ifs Trying Seems Winning Poor Huge Easier Humble Small Things

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Any big task if you look at the grand picture... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day.”

Ifs Trying Looks Littles Bigs Seems Winning Watches Fronts Battle Tasks Accomplish Mma Footsteps

Author:Forrest Griffin

“I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.”

Thinking Doe Facts Seems Fighting Winning Sports Athlete Ugly Harm Bother Opponents Damage

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world today. There is so much that we don’t know, and so much that we know we don’t know. To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. Determination, on the other hand, is a commitment to win, a commitment to fight the good fight.”

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow Christians and only fellow Christians. It is one thing to stand against religious hypocrisy when one sees it, but it is another to go on snorting at anything or anyone who might seem 'too Christian' to us. The irony is that by doing this we are further advocating hypocrisy and 'half-hearted Christians'.”

Thinking World Seems Might Christian Winning Christ Religious Half One Thing Modern Goes On Fellows Irony Hypocrisy Approval Hearted Advocating Demoralizing Half Hearted

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.”

Thinking Persons Long Sometimes Hard Seems Evil Winning Ignorance Goodness Long Time Weakness Hard Times Good Person Trustworthy Wrong Thinking

Book:Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.”

Ifs Thinking States Seems Care Values Winning Moral Messages Smart Red Folks Metaphor Favors Health Care Appeals Etc Voters Describing Affordable Moral Values Affordable Health Care

Author:Eric Liu

“Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange; And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men; And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.”

Men Way Years Wells Seems Remember Form Winning Land Strange Thousand Speech Foolish Thousand Years

Book:Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.”

Seems Winning Millions Cutting Drink Mouths Court Clean Witty Various Ease Nails Dressings Wrinkles Flattering Germs Gowns Kinky Hale High Prices

Author:Donald Barthelme

“There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.”

Life Giving Doe Seems Form Success Values Winning Ability Quality Fate Air Position Depends Birth Great Things Success In Life Eminence Deference

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery, where you fail and you sometimes win, and if you package it into a game, people would pay a fortune to have this game. And I don't know that I'd want it to be resolved so peacefully that the game would be all over.”

People Ifs Knows Want Sometimes Seems Would Be Pain Games Winning Heaven Pay Failing Atheism Right Now Misery Fortune Positive Atheism Packages

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“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

“I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory'.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.”

Source: The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

“I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time. I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.”

Seems Three Winning Bits Four Distance

Author:Lleyton Hewitt

“Other countries may triumph at global conferences where world representatives vote with their hands. But America seems to win whenever the world's people have an opportunity to vote with their feet.”

People World May Country Hands Seems Government America Opportunity Winning Feet Vote Triumph Representatives Other Countries Conferences

Author:Franklin A. Thomas

People Ifs World Doe Seems Would Be Winning Fiction Quality Successful Taken Crime Honestly Successful People Crime Fiction

Author:George Pelecanos

“Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.”

Seems Together Mother Winning Lost Causes Taken Battle Achievement Criticism Conversion Accused Defenseless Teresa Lost Cause

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.”

People Want Seems Artist Winning Style Agree Unsuccessful

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy.”

Thinking Persons Shows Seems Eye Winning Secret Authenticity Dirty Awards Sincerity Public Eye Grammy Award Shows Meltdowns Dirty Secrets

Author:Taylor Swift

“Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.”

Ifs Firsts May Long Sometimes Seems Fighting Winning Waiting Term Chance Deals Plans Risk Huge Fit Rewards Long Term Overwhelming Take A Chance

Author:Mike Tyson

“The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of the sheep is what wins out. The first Commandment is--never let them get anything on you-- The second: Graft--get privileges others haven't got--worm yourself into confidence The Third--seem neat and prosperous--as if you had money in the bank”

Source: Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941

“It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Ifs Thinking Self Seems Turns Winning Fulfilling Prophecy Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Author:Sam Walton

“Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.”

Seems Winning Victory Loser Foul

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

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