Failing Quotes - Page 28

• No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Sea, Forever

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• Fear of failure is the fuel of achievement. If you weren't afraid to fail, you probably wouldn't be highly motivated to work at the level that most of us have to work at to do well.

  Ruth Simmons

  Failure, Achievement, Fuel

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• there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.

  Gene Tierney

  Failure, Way, Rejects

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

  Gene Tierney

  Succeed, Enough, Shows

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

  Evelyn Anthony

  Fall, Unforgivable Sin, America

  Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Rendezvous”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• It is the empiric who never fails.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Failure

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• Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Taken, Trying, Males

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1995). “Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership”, p.125, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

  Neal Stephenson

  Technology, Cases, Insight

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• faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we automatically pray for darkness. Think about it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Faith, Thinking, Darkness

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• The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

  Malcolm X

  America, Made, Activism

  Malcolm X, Benjamin Karim (1971). “The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches”, p.26, Arcade Publishing

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• Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

  Carl Guardino

  Teacher, Nature, Smart

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• Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

  Nicholas Stern

  Two Sides, Challenges, Together

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• Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Leaving, Brain, Bed

  "If Only Gay Sex Caused Global Warming" by Daniel Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2007.

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• when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.

  Lily Dougall

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as no one has done before. Scott and Zelda become, in Spargo's remarkable novel, not people of history but of literature, and reminders of what we fight for, what we fail to win, and the beauty that abides between. A marvel of a book.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Book, Fighting, Winning

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• A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.

  Ashraf Dehghani

  Honesty, Lying, Men

  "Torture & Resistance in Iran: Memoirs of the Woman Guerrilla Ashraf Dehghani". Book by Ashraf Dihqani, 1978.

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• Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

  Martin Firrell

  Lying, Infidelity, Should

  International Herald Tribune, November 24, 2005.

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• If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

  Martin Firrell

  War, Giving, Democracy

  "Art in a Word". Qoob TV, July 22, 2008.

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• The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.

  Robert Haugen

  Running, Mistake, Successful

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 142, 1999.

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• The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.

  Zoe Akins

  People, Watches, World

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• Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.

  Owen Feltham

  Hope, Men, Yield

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• In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Religious, Drama, Character

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• It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Mind, Ambitious, Common

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1972). “Glenarvon (1816).”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.

  Barbara G. Walker

  God, Men, Thinking

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• Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

  Successful, Emotional, Overcoming

  Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.67, University of Chicago Press

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