The Art Of Losing Quotes

#1. Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.

Craig Brown

#2. do this to me, Art. Don't let me keep falling for you. Don't let me love you. Because everything I'd ever loved has a way of falling apart, and the idea of losing you is too much right now. Don't let me keep dreaming. Make me wake up.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#3. Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

Georges St-Pierre

#4. Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

Rachel Kushner

#5. A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#6. I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers.

Tina Modotti

#7. The more our fingers are getting skilled on keypad the more we are losing the art of holding the pen.

Himmilicious

#8. The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#9. I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.

Veronica Roth

#10. The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster

Elizabeth Bishop

#11. This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable. It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life, for love, for art, and for being.

J. Jack Halberstam

#12. We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.

Camille Pissarro

#13. In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

Antoni Tapies

#14. Some part of me knew that I could play this part well, or better than well. But I was almost afraid to play it. The line between stage and life was so fragile here that I felt a risk of losing myself somehow.

J.B. Cheaney

#15.
Even losing you (a joking voice, a gesture/ I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident/ the art of losing's not too hard to master/ though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Elizabeth Bishop

#16. There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

Carlos Gracie Jr.

#17. I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

Alanis Morissette

#18. When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

Anonymous

#19. The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing ourselves in consideration of their imagined form.

Maggie Nelson

#20. A real Intelligence is an art to simplify complex matters without losing the integrity of that matter

Sumit Singh

#21. To excel in the art of domestic argument, one must master the art of losing.

Gerry Spence

#22. There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.

Peter Cundill

#23. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Elizabeth Bishop

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

Tina Modotti

#25. She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.

Veronica Roth

#26. Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

Oli Thompson

#27. People whom live in a world dominated by science and technology are losing belief in God and turning away from religion. Science eliminated the traditions that formerly made living an art form including the rain celebration of spring and traditional harvest festivals.

Kilroy J. Oldster