Top 86 Quotes About Use It Or Lose It
#1. She had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death - a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#2. Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.
John Templeton
#4. Money is like an arm or leg- use it or lose it.
Henry Ford
#5. The lesson of these new insights is that our brain is entirely like any of our physical muscles: Use it or lose it.
Ray Kurzweil
#6. I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.
Joan Collins
#7. With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#8. Without wonder, there's no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don't exercise your capacity for wonder ... well, use it or lose it. A civilization without wonder is a civilization that's starting to atrophy and die.
Brian Hodge
#9. Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day ...
Norman Doidge
#10. Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.
Janet Evanovich
#11. If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!
Ernie J Zelinski
#12. Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true.
Julian Cope
#13. Use it or lose it" is a law of nature, but mercifully "not a soul will be lost" is a law of the spirit that supersedes it.
Arianna Huffington
#15. The mind is like any other muscle in your body. Use it or lose it.
Robin S. Sharma
#16. Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them
John Lubbock
#17. Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.
Pharrell Williams
#18. Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.
William Poundstone
#19. You must match your music to the kind of people God wants your church to reach ... The music you use 'positions' your church in your community. It defines who you are ... It will determine the kind of people you attract, the kind of people you keep, and the kind of people you lose.
Rick Warren
#20. We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.
Jose Serrano
#21. It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
Seneca.
#22. Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given.
Vera Farmiga
#23. The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.
John Garamendi
#24. I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I don't use flash, and with digital I can even work in very bad light. Also, it's a relief not to lose photographs to x-ray machines in airports.
Sebastiao Salgado
#25. For just this moment, we have the closest thing to an advantage we're likely to get. And if we don't use it, we're gonna lose it. Look at me busting out all the tired old metaphors. Like I'd been saving them all winter just waiting for an opportunity to trot them out.
Cherie Priest
#26. Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.
Frederick Lenz
#27. The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.
Portia De Rossi
#28. My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
Colin Powell
#29. Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.
Cullen Hightower
#30. A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
W. H. Auden
#31. The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer
#32. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
Bill Gates
#33. The single most important thing in the universe is the mind. Cherish the treasure. Don't lose by inattention to all around you, and more. Use it constantly and watch it expand endlessly. You will be surprised!
Sohail Mahmood
#34. Don't think you can ... know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything ... you can always control something. Your body - Use it ... Amuse it ... because one day ... you're going to lose it.
Jeff Hardy
#35. If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it ...
Benjamin Franklin
#36. Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing
Karen Marie Moning
#37. Is it true that if you don't USE it you LOSE it?
Steve Carell
#39. It is believed that the average person uses no more than 10% of his or her potential. Ten percent! We're not even scratching the surface of what we're capable of. We are all blessed with a continent of unexplored gifts and talents. Use them, or lose them!
Clifton Anderson
#40. Satan didn't lose any of his beguiling ways when he became the fallen prince. He took his charm, his subtleties, and his clever plots to use on us.
Billy Graham
#41. When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive.
Austin Sarat
#42. Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
Jeffrey Kluger
#43. Well, I never been to SpainBut I kinda like the musicSay the ladies are insane thereAnd they sure know how to use itThey don't abuse it, never gonna lose itI can't refuse it.
Hoyt Axton
#44. We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
#45. Back now to the mountain!" cried Thorin. "We have little time to lose." "And little food to use!" cried Bilbo, always practical on such points. In any case he felt that the adventure was, properly speaking, over with the death of the dragon.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#47. It's not true that we lose our creative genius when we grow older, but we grow older because we forget to use our creative genius.
Debasish Mridha
#48. I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.
Chris Pratt
#49. I try not to identify too strongly with any of my characters. I like to stand back and see them objectively. I think this is why I often use boys instead of girls, just in case I get too close and lose the overall picture.
Jenny Nimmo
#50. If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles.
Dalai Lama
#51. Many of the medicines we use today, to fight everything from AIDS to cancer, originate as a toxin in an amphibian skin. When we lose these animals, we lose resources. We lose keystone species in the environments where they live.
Jeff Corwin
#52. Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.
David Bowie
#53. I'm just trying to get people to understand horses. You have to be consistent and logical, use your brain, and not be emotional and not lose your temper.
Buck Brannaman
#54. I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?
Lisa Edelstein
#55. I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.
Joan Collins
#56. The opportunity to truly Live doesn't wait. Either We USE it or We LOSE it.-RVM
R.v.m.
#57. In lying to others we end up lying to ourselves. We deny the importance of an event, or a person, and thus deprive ourselves of a part of our lives. Or we use one piece of the past or present to screen out another. Thus we lose faith even in our own lives.
Adrienne Rich
#58. Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
George Bernard Shaw
#59. No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.
Larry Merchant
#60. Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it's all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.
Steve Denning
#61. The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.
Helen Fisher
#62. A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
Chuck Close
#63. Faith is like a muscle. If you didn't use it, you lose it.
A.C. Kret
#64. Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.
Marcus Samuelsson
#66. Though time seems to expand or contract between idle and frantic moments, it passes the same in both: second by second. You can neither lose it or create it. Use it wisely.
Gavin Mills
#67. Use what you have in your gym. Try to do my training program, you will lose your fat and gain muscles at the same time.
Serge Nubret
#69. Do you mean that we have more words than we need, I mean that we have too few feelings, Or that we have them but have ceased to use the words they express, And so we lose them
Jose Saramago
#70. The reason I use ed is that I don't want to lose what's on the screen.
Bill Joy
#71. A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.
Margery Williams
#73. Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it ... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose.
-Carl Grimes
Robert Kirkman
#74. Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is stopped physically, whether with the use of force, or is killed, I certainly wouldn't lose sleep over that idea.
Jerry Vlasak
#75. I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?
Adam Ant
#76. Use your wish," I whisper to Aladdin, opening my eyes. "Please."
"If I do," he replies softly, "I'll lose you.
Jessica Khoury
#77. I tend to lose myself in the moment. I'm not very good at holding back. I don't know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.
Florence Welch
#78. In the chaos of everyday life, it's easy to lose sight of what really matters, and I can use my habits to make sure that my life reflects my values.
Gretchen Rubin
#79. What Wiesenfeld meant by "alternative," and what was hinted by RBG's use of the phrase life partner was a marriage in which the woman didn't lose herself and her autonomy, in which two humans shared their lives and goals on equal footing.
Irin Carmon
#80. Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
Christine Warren
#81. Racers never lose their skill, they just lose the will to use it, and until they reach that point they keep getting faster.
Mat Oxley
#82. We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear.
Nick Harkaway
#83. Is there a phone I can use? (Talon)
In the kitchen. (Sunshine)
Could you please bring it to me? (Talon)
It's not cordless. I always lose those things or I drop them someplace and break them. The last one I had ended up drowning in the toilet. (Sunshine)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#84. If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.
Edward Wilmot Blyden
#85. In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose.
Conrad Burns
#86. A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won't go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won't go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.
Gilbert Murray
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