#losing

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one. ↗

— Bill Tilden

#change #game #losing #never #winning

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#closing #does #leave #party #time

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art. ↗

— Tina Modotti

#cannot #i #life #losing #myself

Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#losing #humor

Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending. ↗

— Cora Carmack

#chance-and-fortune #desire #garrick #guilt #hope

Loss invites reflection and reformulating and a change of strategies. Loss hurts and bleeds and aches. Loss is always ready to call out your name in the night. Loss follows you home and taunts you at the breakfast table, follows you to work in the morning. You have to make accommodations and broker deals to soften the rabbit punches that loss brings to your daily life. You have to take the word "loser" and add it to your resume and walk around with it on your name tag as it hand-feeds you your own shit in dosages too large for even great beasts to swallow. The word "loser" follows you, bird-dogs you, sniffs you out of whatever fields you hide in because you have to face things clearly and you cannot turn away from what is true. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#lesson-from-lossing #life-lesson #loser-quotes #losing #losing-quotes

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it. ↗

— Tim Allen

#father #fears #go #gotten #i

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#bambi #because #children #effect #losing

I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#awesome #being #champion #doing #entertaining

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#feels #i #losing #only #sting