Failing Quotes - Page 19

• Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

  E. W. Howe

  Business, Men, Knowing

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• My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Strength, Opportunity, Needs

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• Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

  Bernard Baruch

  Passion, Thinking, Knowing

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• We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Failure, Adversity, Blessing

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• You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.

  Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

  Appreciation, Shining, May

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• We have close to us as much as Joseph had at Nazareth; we have our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, but our poor eyes fail to see Him. Let us once become interior souls and we shall immediately see. In no better way can we enter into the Heart of our Lord than through Saint Joseph. Jesus and Mary are eager to pay the debts which they owe him for his devoted care of them, and their greatest pleasure is to fulfill his least desire. Let him, then, lead you by hand into the interior sanctuary of Jesus Eucharistic.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Blessed, Eye

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• We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.

  Jan Phillips

  Memories, Regret, Fear

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• Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Memories, Office, Buried

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• Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Failure, Looks

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• A simple right or left can mean life or death,
  Epic fail or nice success,
  Days of pleasure or nights of stress.

  Ka

  Nice, Stress, Rap

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• If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!

  Jeffry A Timmons

  Leadership, Entrepreneur, Creative

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• The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.

  Wendell Berry

  Character, Culture, Answers

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.198, Counterpoint Press

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• If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Stars, Powerful, Eye

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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• Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Powerful, Mean, Science

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• If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

  Will Ferrell

  Trying, Want, Way

  "Megamind - Will Ferrell interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

  Ray LaHood

  Swings, Bridges, Rivers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Vacation, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's a dance that people want to see. It's a chemistry that people want to see. In the same way that people don't want to see a perfect hero with no flaws who can handle anything, people don't want to see a perfect relationship. There's nothing interesting about that. People want to see you fail.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.

  Shiri Appleby

  Feel Better, Accomplished, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Failure

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• Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.

  Jason Calacanis

  Life, Stars, Simple

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• Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence... where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense; anxiety enters immediately. How to do? What to do? How to succeed? How not to fail? You have already moved into the future.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Anxiety, Succeed

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• Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

  Laozi

  Failure, Rushing, Trying

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• Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Procrastination, Men, Despair

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Army, Greatness, Discipline

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