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• Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

  James Dyson

  Years, Firsts, Spurs

  "Failure can be an option" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

  William Arthur Ward

  Determination, Giving Up, Frustration

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• It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Swimming, Two, Life And Death

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• I got a feeling that after six years of disappointment, of mediocrity and decline, a slow course correction is not what voters are going to be looking for in 2016.

  Rick Perry

  Years, Feelings, Mediocrity

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• Every one is special. Especially after the disappointment of last year, losing out on the last day, it is a great achievement by the lads.

  Ryan Giggs

  Years, Achievement, Special

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• When you lose a game or don't play well you can't wait for the next one, because it soon disappears, the disappointment.

  Ryan Giggs

  Games, Play, Waiting

  "EXCLUSIVE: When Gary met Ryan... 'I've never, ever experienced a shock like that on the football pitch,' says Giggs on United's Champions League exit". Interview with Gary Neville, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 9, 2013.

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• Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.

  David Einhorn

  Smart, Opportunity, Cells

  "Transcript of David Einhorn's Speech at the Ira Sohn Conference". www.businessinsider.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.

  Roger Bart

  Art, School, College

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• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Errors, Jewels, Feelings

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• Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Expectations, Ends

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.426

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• Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Baseball, Team, West Point

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• Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Reading, Sovereign, Study

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• I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heaven, Herds, Diamond

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.68, Jazzybee Verlag

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• These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

  Paul Harvey

  Hard Work, Appreciate, Tough Times

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• Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

  Jim Rohn

  Wind, Bridges, Discipline

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• Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Law, Benefits, Saws

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• If you truly dwell within Acceptance, you are wityout two things-Expectations and Disappointments.

  Mary Summer Rain

  Acceptance, Two, Expectations

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• Be prepared for disappointment and frustration. Be persistent and bounce back even more determined to succeed.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Frustration, Determined To Succeed, Be Prepared

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• So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?

  Robert Genn

  Blame

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• By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappointment at age 10; not until later did I recognize it as a metaphor for much of life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Age, Metaphor, Lost

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• Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.

  Guy Finley

  Expectations, Despair, Fruit

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• The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled in the merriest way, as if it was champagne," Dostoevsky says. That raises the problem of justice, what it might mean in an unjust world and whether there can be an ethics and a political practice that would be able to face and face down the injustice of the present. How might we begin to think about that?

  Simon Critchley

  Mean, Thinking, Practice

  "Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley". Interview with Anders Gullestad, truthout.org. May 15, 2010.

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• I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Believe, Training

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.288, Univ of California Press

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• Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

  William Penn

  Heaven, Faults, Results

  William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)

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• Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Heart, Waiting, Quests

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