Failing Quotes - Page 29

• Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Christian, Animal, Men

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• If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

  Seymour Sarason

  School, Reform, Culture

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• People didn't sit and watch television and go, oh, my God, we're failing. So what are they doing in China is, they set up the markets as the test of their own economic management and of this whole theory of economic liberalization.

  Margaret Warner

  People, Management, Economic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them... In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Love You, Heart, Love Is

  "Nikki Giovanni - Celebrity Guest Author Interview". Interview with Cheryl Holloway, www.cherylholloway.net. February 14, 2014.

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• I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

  Hilary Swank

  Lying, Passion, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device.

  George Saunders

  People, Swagger, Levels

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• If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

  Seth Godin

  Responsibility, People, Survivor

  "Small Business Marketing Resources". Experian Interview, www.experian.com.

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• The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

  Herrick Johnson

  Morning, Night, Soul

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

  Gertrude Atherton

  Opportunity, Thinking, Fire

  Gertrude Atherton (1925). “The Crystal Cup”

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• Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.

  Russell T Davies

  Nice, Drama, Naughty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.

  Faith Sullivan

  Success, Hate, Ideas

  Faith Sullivan (1997). “The Empress of One”

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• A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

  Joan Robinson

  Complaining, Hearing, Orthodoxy

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.10, Academic Press

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• When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail, These three who have walked with Death these shall prevail. Hell bade all its millions rise; Paradise sends three: Pity, and Self-sacrifice, and Charity.

  Theodosia Garrison

  War, Sacrifice, Wrath

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• The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.

  Patrick Shade

  Weather, Agency, Growth

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• At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly.

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Biblical, Christ, Revelations

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.277

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• I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.

  Munir Butt

  Disappointment, Party, Blow

  Foreign Affairs, 2009.

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• Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that, a transcendental viewpoint with that of a continually transcending activity. ... There is no single, final perspective, but given any one perspective, we can always go beyond it.

  Raymond Geuss

  Perspective, Finals, Viewpoints

  "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.

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• Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it has proven impossible to find any consistent way to visualize the world underlying quantum theory in terms of our pictures in the everyday world. The general conclusion is that in quantum theory naive realism, although necessary at the level of observations, fails at the microscopic level.

  Ravi Gomatam

  Thinking, Everyday, World

  "Physics and Commonsense - Reassessing the connection in the light of quantum theory". arxiv.org. August 12, 2007.

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• Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.

  African Spir

  Appreciate, Risk, Too Much

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Sacrifice, Light, Giving

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• How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?

  Bruno Schulz

  Meaningful, Wall, Bricks

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hurt, Fall, Mean

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• When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

  Marie Leszczynska

  Jesus, Religion, Woods

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• One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Community, Injury, Members

  Patricia Wentworth (2006). “Poison in the Pen”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.

  Donalyn Miller

  Reading, Long, Graduates

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.20, John Wiley & Sons

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