A Quote by George Herbert
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
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Maybe during the last sprint, sometimes you can lose, sometimes you can gain.
If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.
Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.
I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.
If I do a role where I have to lose weight, I can do that. I eat meat, fish, vegetables, and I lose it right away. But sometimes I do a role where I have to gain weight, and I can tell you I prefer that.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.
Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.
I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain.
I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose... you lose to gain.
Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose
The best teams in Europe play in the Champions League, and when you face them, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Sometimes when you win, you really lose. And sometimes when you lose, you really win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie. And sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs.
Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.
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