Failing Quotes - Page 17

• Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Guilt, Quitting, Standards

  "A Beautiful Mind" by Bianca Boscer, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

  Aisha Tyler

  Culture, Want, Hale

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• In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

  Don Tapscott

  Country, Organization, Islands

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Crush, Children, Giving

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• The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Kids, Insecure, Gay

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• In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

  Julie Walters

  Order, Creative, Be Creative

  "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

  Lenny Wilkens

  Starting Over, Firsts, Chance

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• While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Law, Uniforms

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• No-one wants to see anybody fail in life.

  Barry O'Sullivan

  Want

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

  John Walford

  Art, Sides, Century

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• We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at the same time their quest was doomed to fail, for all universals break down as soon as the Creator, He who made man in His image, is denied or left out of account.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Art, Greatness, Men

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• If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

  Ira Glass

  Writing, Creating, Lucky

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• Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try."

  Jess C Scott

  Giving, Inner Peace, Skins

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• If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Average, Devil

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• 90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Persistence, Quitting, Defeated

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• I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

  Chris Messina

  Thinking, People, Actors

  "Chris Messina: Hollywood's Busiest Man and His Existential Questions". Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 15, 2013.

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• With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.

  Anthony Mackie

  Order, Law, Done

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• I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

  Douglass North

  School, Way, Graduates

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• Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Short Life, Appreciate

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• The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

  Mark Twain

  Church, Tails, Credit

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Horse, Passion, Eye

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (2005). “My Discovery of America”

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• Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

  John C. Maxwell

  Problem, Deals, Ifs

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success”, Harper Collins

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• I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.

  Karen Traviss

  Responsibility, Roles, Avalanches

  Karen Traviss (2009). “Ally”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can.

  Earl Felton

  Hate, Heart

  "Fictional character: Captain Nemo". "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", www.imdb.com. 1954.

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