Failing Quotes - Page 15

• Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

  Bram Cohen

  Technology, Views, Law

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• It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration, Lamps, Baths

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• Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player fails in a game, the coach may have failed in practice.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Player, Practice

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• A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Communication, Practice, Listening

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• Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when it comes to fair and workable details, democracy fails to completely meet the criteria enunciated by Lincoln by a rather wide margin.

  George Aiken

  Government, People, Democracy

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• Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 19

  Greg Mortenson

  Long, Mentor, Valleys

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• I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Children, Stress, Decision

  "Kara DioGuardi's 'A Helluva High Note': Quit Not Fired From 'American Idol' and More Secrets" by Kate Aurthur, www.thedailybeast.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

  Barbara Deming

  Jail, Doubt, Trying

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

  David Deutsch

  Majority, Tests, Theory

  David Deutsch (2011). “The Fabric of Reality”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

  David Deutsch

  Tests, Explanation, Tested

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• Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

  Charles Edison

  Jobs, Men, Hands

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• I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.

  James Frey

  Writing, People, Negative

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• There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Flow, Again And Again, Courses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.

  Joshua Ferris

  Terrible, Conclusion, Feels

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• If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Desire, Culture, Fragments

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• A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

  Ashley Benson

  Cute, New Year, White

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

  Emilio Estevez

  Risk, Needs, Way

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• There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

  Sylvia Earle

  Numbers, What Matters, Missing

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• Too many hearts have been broken, failing to trust what they feel.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Relationship, Heart, Broken

  Song: Believe In Me, 1984

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• So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

  Corra May Harris

  Business, Beer, Men

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• The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Book, Science, Vocabulary

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• Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working.

  Joseph Murray

  Failure, Mean, Science

  "A Conversation With: Joseph E. Murray; On Surgical Innovation And The Questions It Can Raise". Interview With Cornelia Dean, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2001.

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• Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.

  Marie Curie

  Country, Book, Writing

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• Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

  Bob Dylan

  Army, Order, Law

  Song: Subterranean Homesick Blues, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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