Quotes About Loss

lose. His personal confidence was wiped out.

Finally, this explains why people who look too closely at randomness burn out, their emotions drained by the series of pangs they experience. Regardless of what people claim, a negative pang is not offset by a positive one (some psychologists estimate the negative effect for an average loss to be up to 2.5 the magnitude of a positive one); it will lead to an emotional deficit.

which a loss is more painful than a gain is pleasant):

many people become long-term investors after they lose money, postponing

many people become long-term investors after they lose money, postponing their decision to sell as part of their denial.

but would treat cost of search as "loss.

Tales tinha o direito — mas não a obrigação — de usar as prensas caso houvesse um súbito aumento na demanda; a outra parte tinha a obrigação, mas não o direito. Tales pagou um preço pequeno por esse privilégio, com uma perda limitada e um grande resultado possível. É a primeira opção de que se tem registro. A opção é um agente da antifragilidade.

Traders, when they make profits, have short communications; when they lose they drown you in details, theories, and charts.

Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain.

When you become rich, the pain of losing your fortune exceeds the emotional gain of getting additional wealth, so you start living under continuous emotional threat.

because they cost more to run than the benefits they bring.

Returning to the home office means loss of perks, having to revert to his base salary

people do not realize that success consists mainly in avoiding losses, not in trying to derive profits.

could cause a loss of business

So I wasn't there when he died, which I regret. But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits.

No nos curaremos nunca de esta guerra. Es inútil. Jamás volveremos a ser gente serena, gente que piensa y estudia y construye su vida en paz. Mirad lo que han hecho con nuestras casas. Mirad lo que han hecho con nosotros. Jamás volveremos a ser gente tranquila.

And Ippolito too, in his own way, had been a real person, even though he had come to that insect-like end.

Pavese casi nunca hablaba de Leone. No le gustaba hablar de los ausentes ni de los muertos. Lo decía. Decía: «Cuando alguien se marcha o se muere trato de no pensar en él, porque no me gusta sufrir»

Al llegar a Roma respiré, y pensé que comenzaría una época feliz para nosotros. No tenía motivos para pensarlo, pero lo hice. Teníamos un alojamiento en los alrededores de la plaza Bologna. Leone dirigía un periódico clandestino y estaba siempre fuera de casa. Lo detuvieron a los veinte días de nuestra llegada y no lo vi nunca más.

She's gone," he answered.

Le pire n'est pas que l'on se brûle, mais que le feu s'éteint.

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.