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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER, Confidence
Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
The media attention. It's only good when your winning, but when you're winning, it's great. When you're losing around here, you're a complete bum.
CARSON PALMER, interview, Nov. 4, 2002
It is a silly game where nobody wins.
THOMAS FULLER, Gnomologia
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
You can't win every week.
CARYL CHURCHILL, Far Away
Winning isn't everything to me, but it's a close second. Losing isn't something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide my frustration. It's that will and determination that I hope will get me where I want to go.
DALE EARNHARDT, JR., Driver #8
Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become masters of their own fate. That feeling of efficacy, of being in charge of circumstances, is the essence of confidence. Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER, Confidence
Winners have to absorb losses.
ICE-T, Men's Health, Dec. 2005
- Who overcomes
- By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are both cause and effect of winning or losing. Winning generates positive forces, losing generates negative forces.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER, Confidence
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
LARRY BIRD, attributed, The Best Book of Basketball Facts and Stats
Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.
PHIL JACKSON, Sacred Hoops
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