Failing Quotes - Page 18

• Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Reality, Thinking, Opposites

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• My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.

  Jerry Moran

  Goal, Succeed, Circumstances

  "Moran peddles bill at SXSW" by Kim Hart, www.politico.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

  Fred Upton

  Obamacare, Law, Promise

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• For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

  Henry Paulson

  Discipline, Risk, Financial

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• We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

  Atul Gawande

  Aging, Experiments

  "Atul Gawande: 'We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance

  Amelia Bloomer

  Comfort, Want, Costumes

  Amelia Bloomer (1975). “Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer”

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• Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to keep learning because world keeps changing and competitors keep learning. You have to go to bed wiser than you got up. As you try to master what you are trying to do – people who do that almost never fail utterly. Very few have ever failed with that approach. You may rise slowly, but you are sure to rise.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Practice, People

  "Afternoon Session - 2010 Meeting". buffett.cnbc.com. May 1, 2010.

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• A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

  Charlie Munger

  Rely, Models, Doomed

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• I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Teaching

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• One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Suffering, Might

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.136, Harper Collins

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• We are living in a world where access trumps knowledge every time. Those who know how to search, find and make the connections will succeed. Those who rely on static knowledge and skills alone will fail.

  Charles Jennings

  Skills, Connections, World

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• Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.

  Justin Welby

  Leader, Degrees, Reorganisation

  "Pope Francis gives first Easter Sunday sermon as thousands gather in St Peter's Square" by Steve White, www.mirror.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

  Curt Schilling

  Team, Successful, Guy

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• Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything

  Richard Stearns

  Richard Stearns (2009). “The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World”, p.152, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.

  Sonam Kapoor

  Secret, Knows, Ifs

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• As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

  P. C. Cast

  Real, Hero, Successful

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• Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Engineering, Community, Source

  "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.

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• Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

  Rian Johnson

  Kids, Piano, Like You

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• If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, May, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.178, Penguin

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• I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.

  John Graves

  Thinking, Annoyed, Southern

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• We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Failure, Thinking, Cost

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• Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.

  Robert Ardrey

  Bird, Population, May

  ROBERT ARDREY (1966). “THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE”

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• I'm single and looking and failing miserably. I'm keeping my options open.

  Katie Leung

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• What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only do the shareholders lose, but the entities lose.

  Richard Grasso

  Brother, People, Rewards

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• I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.

  Zara Phillips

  People, Waiting, Trying

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