Quotes About Loss

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

He's lost his colour very far from here, Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry

I am the enemy you killed, my friend.

We who are left how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?

With either soul or body lost, all perisheth.

Dark to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens. Where is she that I loved, the woman with eyes like stars? Desolate are the streets. Desolate is the city. A city taken by storm, where none are left but the slain.

Benim en ?iddetli korkular?mdan biri, a?k?n gittikçe daha güçlü bir biçimde tedarik i?lerine kaymas?yd?; öyle ki sonunda geriye sadece tedarik kal?yor, a?k uçup gitmi? oluyordu.

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.

my life comes apart like a love letter in the rain.

Charge the loss to your mental account of 'general revenue'—you will feel better!

The third principle is loss aversion. When directly compared or weighted against each other, losses loom larger than gains. This asymmetry between the power of positive and negative expectations or experiences has an evolutionary history. Organisms that treat threats as more urgent than opportunities have a better chance to survive and reproduce.

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics

The thought of accepting the large sure loss is too painful, and the hope of complete relief too enticing, to make the sensible decision that it is time to cut one's losses.

Many unfortunate human situations unfold [. . .] where people who face bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. The thought of accepting the large sure loss is too painful, and the hope of complete relief is too enticing, to make the sensible decision that it is time to cut one's losses.

a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches. As he points out, the negative trumps the positive in many ways, and loss aversion is one of many manifestations of a broad negativity dominance.

Loss aversion refers to the relative strength of two motives: we are driven more strongly to avoid losses than to achieve gains. A reference point is sometimes the status quo, but it can also be a goal in the future: not achieving a goal is a loss, exceeding the goal is a gain. As we might expect from negativity dominance, the two motives are not equally powerful. The aversion to the failure of not reaching the goal is much stronger than the desire to exceed it.

In simple words, prospect theory cannot deal with disappointment.

Many individual investors lose consistently by trading, an achievement that a dart-throwing chimp could not match.

costs are not losses.

The thought of accepting the large sure loss is too painful, and the hope of complete relief too enticing, to make the sensible decision that it is time to cut one's losses. This is where businesses that are losing ground to a superior technology waste their remaining assets in futile attempts to catch up. Because defeat is so difficult to accept, the losing side in wars often fights long past the point at which the victory of the other side is certain, and only a matter of time.

the response to losses is stronger than the response to corresponding gains. This is loss aversion.

THE VALUES ARE UNEQUAL BECAUSE OF LOSS AVERSION

Die Liebe zu den Kindern - besser, man kämpft gegen sie an. Man kommt ja auch nicht einem Hund zu nahe; sogar wenn er freundlich aussieht, kann er zuschnappen. Stets muss man einen Abstand lassen zwischen sich und seinem Kind, sie sterben einfach zu schnell. Aber mit jedem Jahr, das vergeht, gewöhnt man sich mehr an so ein Wesen. Man fasst Zutrauen, man erlaubt sich, es teilzuhaben. Und plötzlich ist es weg.