#lose

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#contact #easy #give #give and take #harmony

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#empty #everything #filled #itself #knowing

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology. ↗

— John Pople

#close #developments #i #molecular #observer

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty. ↗

— Jon Porter

#congress #country #faculty #fastest #growing

Sore loser? You bet your fuckin' ass! What on earth is wrong with being a sore loser? It shows you cared about whatever the contest was in the first place. Fuck losing graciously-that's for chumps. And losers, by the way. ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #sore-loser #funny

I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done. ↗

— Rob Portman

#closely #congress #done #get #got

I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. ↗

— Jon Postel

#closest #closest thing #god #i #i think

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #close #creativity #heard #i

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. ↗

— Colin Powell

#close #down #ego #get #gets

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ↗

— Colin Powell

#close #ego #falls #goes #having