A Quote by Hugh Prather

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

Hugh Prather

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Hugh Prather
American - Writer
January 23, 1938 - November 15, 2010

The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.

Bertrand Russell

Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.

Peter Thiel

I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

Fedor Emelianenko

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.

Erich Fromm

The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film [Takeshis'], I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague.

Takeshi Kitano

My family is important to me. They have always been close to me during my career, victories and defeats, and the most difficult moments.

Felipe Massa

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

Che Guevara

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

Matthew Thomas

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Paulo Coelho

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories.

Gianluigi Buffon

I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.

Friedrich St. Florian

I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.

Aaron Schock

While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

Timothy Keller

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories. Whenever I lose, I focus on the ability of my opponent and on the mistakes I made.

Gianluigi Buffon

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

Paulo Coelho