One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.


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LAURENCE STERNE
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top o...
LAURENCE STERNE
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which...
LAURENCE STERNE
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the ...
LAURENCE STERNE
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
LAURENCE STERNE
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
LAURENCE STERNE
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to suppo...
LAURENCE STERNE
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playbo...
LAURENCE OLIVIER
But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and ...
LAURENCE GONZALES
Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the neg...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten t...
LAURENCE OLIVIER
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not ...
LAURENCE STERNE
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
LAURENCE OLIVIER
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
LAURENCE STERNE
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he kno...
LAURENCE LEE
What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm...
LAURENCE GONZALES
In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cr...
LAURENCE YEP
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought ca...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN
I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I thi...
LAURENCE OLIVIER
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent f...
LAURENCE STERNE
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in mo...
LAURENCE STERNE
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years...
LAURENCE BINYON
I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elem...
LAURENCE YEP
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
LAURENCE PETER
"He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's cha...
LAURENCE STERNE
Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.
LAURENCE STERNE
It was a toast, not a roast.
LAURENCE MEYER