Quotes About Learning To Lose

#1. Wasn't learning to lose gracefully part of your training?"
"No," she said sourly. "Arobynn told me that second place was just a nice title for the first loser.

Sarah J. Maas

#2. I learned to win by learning to lose- that means not being afraid of losing.

Jeff Blatnick

#3. When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.

Goran Ivanisevic

#4. What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

Abraham Verghese

#5. To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.

Ken Blanchard

#6. I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

Jodi Picoult

#7. Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.

Rufus Wainwright

#8. 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

#9. Sure, Manda knew that the tree wasn't actually dead. Mrs. Evans, her teacher, taught her that some trees lose their leaves in the wintertime making them look dead, when they were only sleeping.

Sleeping or not, the big tree was dead to Manda.

Julie B. Campbell

#10. The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

Bell Hooks

#11. A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds.

Jo-Ann Mapson

#12. Some parents let their young kids win at games, but mine never did.
I don't think it was because they were particularly competitive, they just wanted to teach me a valuable lesson.
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

Brian K. Vaughan

#13. I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.

Jack Canfield

#14. Of course we'll win. And even if we were to lose, we'd win at losing.

Criss Jami

#15. That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#16. Most Humans lose access to old memories as they acquire new ones. They know how to speak, for instance, but they don't recall learning to speak. They keep what experience has taught them - usually - but lose the experience itself. We

Octavia E. Butler

#17. The answer you seek lies in learning to combine the power of reason with the passion of emotion. If you let reason alone control your choices, you lose the power of intuition. If you let emotion control your choices, you will be a slave to every minor tragedy.

Roy Huff

#18. That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Richard Bach

#19. Life is really a travesty of will: it is a parade of learning how to lose people and improve at feigning indifference.

I suspect I shall always fail at this, and fail miserably. I do not know whether that is winning at life or failing at happiness.

Michelle Franklin

#20. The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#21. Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

Mary Pickford

#22. Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Wilma Rudolph

#23. Being single is a great thing. Some people can't do it
or are afraid to do it. Many people lose themselves in their relationships and forget who they are instead of learning from the other person and bettering themselves.

Elise Valmorbida

#24. The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

John McEnroe

#25. When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of it and the rote learning are so, sort of, offensive actually, that children sort of lose that passion more often than not.

Nicholas Negroponte

#26. I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.

Tom Watson

#27. If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.

Cassandra Clare

#28. Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment ...

Emma Goldman

#29. Do not lose heart. We were made for these times ... For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for ... and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#30. I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.

Hilary Swank