When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

You either lose your way or you break through the hardships and play well. There is a massive difference.

I have always tried with my shows - win, lose, or draw - to take the boundaries of music as far as I can.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

When you lose power, then all of a sudden, the press are lions. When you have power, the press are lambs.

All I care about is England doing well and if that means I'm looking on for a bit, I won't lose any sleep.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

Most of our lives are dictated by money and when we lose or gain some, we change so much as an individual.

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.

When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.

Black women have historically had the most to lose and have therefore been the fiercest fighters for justice.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

I will pursue my passion of cooking every day until my hands fall off and I lose all sense of smell and taste.

People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

I could hold on to everything for the rest of my life. I don't make friends easy, and I don't lose friends easy.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

I win and lose in one way. And that's either putting them to sleep or putting it on the line and going to sleep.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.

If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

It's cool to make the playoffs. It's not cool to lose in the first round anymore. The goal is to make the Finals.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.

What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

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