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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.


Wilma Rudolph


#again #champion #crushing #defeat #go

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.


Ben Stein


#bit #child #child abuse #children #crushing

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.


Henri Frederic Amiel


#destiny #fulfilling #our #refusing #them

And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.


Cornelia Funke


#death #dustfinger #death

...his monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes..


James Joyce


#wonderful-imagery #dreams

Why do you hate everyone so much!?" Kadmus shouted at Chaos. "I don't. I love everyone," Chaos lied. "You're trying to crush the entire planet," Explosion pointed out. "I love them in a crushing way," Chaos amended.


Kenneth Evers


#chaos #crushing #doomsday #explosion #insanity

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.


Arabella Weir


#charted #crushing #frequently #just #life

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.


Jeanette Winterson


#continually #crushing #fiction #read #write

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.


Orville Wright


#case #crushing #experiences #experiments #gliding

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.


Olivia De Havilland


#business #crushing #destroying #human #human being






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