In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand.... I don't need that anymore. I don...'t need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So of the three methods: reason, sense, or a knowing combination of both, the last seems the least like a winner, the second probl...ematic; only the first has some slim chance of succeeding through sheer perversity, which is possibly the only way to succeed at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To make ...it in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Competition can be a very intense experience and a very rewarding one, or it can be enormously destructive. External pressure, whe...ther it's exerted by a coach, a school, a ski club, or a country, is what can make it a negative thing. When they use you to satisfy their need to succeed, when they impose their value system on you, then competition isn't personally rewarding anymore.... You're either a winner or a loser.... There's no way in my mind that you can divide humanity into those two categories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a... real loser--in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civil...izees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bread-winner must toil as in the fruitless effort of a troubled dream while the expenditure of an uneducated wife discounts th...e income in the lack of understanding to discern the broad possibilities of an intelligent economy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »