A Quote by J. C. Watts

If you are explaining, you are losing.

J. C. Watts

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Explaining Losing

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J. C. Watts
American - Politician
Born: November 18, 1957

If you're explaining, you're losing.

Ronald Reagan

In politics, when you`re explaining, you`re losing.

Jim Moore

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

P. J. O'Rourke

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

Gil Kalai

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

George Saunders

If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

Lawrence Lessig

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

Boris Johnson

Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

Tim Kaine

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

Walter Mosley

We're constantly losing - we're losing time, we're losing ourselves. I don't feel for the things I lost.

John Banville

Losing sucks. Nobody wants to be known for losing; you can't even have fun when you're losing.

Nick Young

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

Philip Larkin

A good traditional conceptual instruction is what I got from my better professors at MIT. They would be at a chalkboard, and they would literally be explaining something and working through a problem, but it wasn't rote. They were explaining the underlying theory and processes and intuition behind it.

Sal Khan

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.

Jonah Goldberg

Here we have perhaps in Mike Pence someone uniquely capable of explaining [Donald] Trump and being Trump and explaining for people who Trump is and what he is. And defending against whatever predictable insults and assaults on Trump that [Tim] Kaine comes up with.