Quote by Abraham Verghese Download Open image ““When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact.”” — Abraham Verghese ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“I never lose, even when I lose, because I learn from it, and that isn’t a loss; it’s a win.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun. Most people never win because they’re more afraid of losing.” — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“You must lose, at least once, in order to fully appreciate a win!” — Karen E. Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
“Who ever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.” — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
“It’s more like winning than winning itself, and everyone knows you are not a real player until you secretly prefer losing.” — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“It’s not so much that a person wins, but that they refuse to lose that results in success.” — M.D Brian Quebbemann Copy Share Image
“There are occasions when losing is a victory, so long as there is a fight.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Do they listen?" He held up a finger. "Every year one does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“There it was, Hema must have thought; it was both the sorry and the thank-you that was so long overdue, and the funny thing… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“This is my life, I thought, as my taxi slogged through heavy traffic and inched through the tunnel to Logan Airport. I have excised… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I could see that the almost mystical aura of this legendary surgeon -- the single-mindedness, the dedication, the skill -- was mere surface. The… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“As a child I'd longed for Thomas Stone or at least the idea of him. So many mornings I waited for him at the… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image