#loss

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#baseball #batting #call #cards #could

When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#everyone #everything #eyes #get #gloss

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. ↗

— Jim Davis

#capabilities #debilitating #focus #give #handicap

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#few #game #good #good idea #idea

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. ↗

— Democritus

#gain #hope #ill #loss

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. ↗

— Thucydides

#cultivate #greeks #loss #lovers #manliness

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#grief #loss #love #death

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#deals #dirty #film #films #flattering

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#everything #go #i #life #like

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms. ↗

— Margaret Stohl

#loss #love #pain #beauty