Failing Quotes - Page 32

• My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

  David Levithan

  Book, Writing, Giving

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• Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

  Edith Wharton

  New York, Eye, Numbers

  Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.

  Tiger Woods

  Doors, Perfect, Feelings

  Tiger Woods statement, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2009.

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• I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial'.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Trials, Bigs, Concerned

  "Elizabeth Warren Embarrasses Hapless Bank Regulators At First Hearing" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

  Eric Schmidt

  Data, Information, Way

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• We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Needs, Bail

  "RBS and Lloyds could be broken up under Tories". www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2009.

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• I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.

  Kenny Anderson

  Want, Turns, Quickness

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• Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid in its establishment? Praying for His will to be done and then not trying to live it, gives you a negative answer at once. You would not grant something to a child who showed that attitude towards a request he is making of you. If we pray for the success of some cause or enterprise, manifestly we are in sympathy with it. It is the height of disloyalty to pray for God's will to be done, and then fail to conform our lives to that will.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Attitude, Heart

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• Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

  Jerrold Nadler

  Safe, Torture

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• In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  People, Science And Religion, Humans

  "Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion" by Dr Rupert Sheldrake, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2012.

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• Mitt Romney was attacking Obama about our failing education system. He has a point. We are graduating millions of people in this country who are so lacking in basic analytical skills, they are considering voting for Mitt Romney.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Skills, People

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• The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost.

  Robert H. Goddard

  People, Vision, Cost

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• The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Winning, Thug

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.53, Penguin

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• One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.

  D. A. Carson

  Crush, Tolerance, Western Culture

  D. A. Carson (2009). “The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Peace, War, Long

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• The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.

  John H. Sununu

  Education, Excellence, Incentives

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• Most organizations fail in driving change.

  Jack Welch

  Organization, Driving

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• Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done.

  Kurt Fuller

  Done, Shows, Show Business

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Students, Turns

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Ideas, Enemy, Democracy

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.

  Ethan Hawke

  Creative, Growth, Asking

  "Ethan Hawke on Stage Fright, Denzel Washington: "Don't F - With Him, Man" (Q&A)". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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• I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want to do. I only sleep four hours a night.

  Michelle Mone

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

  Richard Branson

  People, Entrepreneur, Mind

  "Richard Branson Responds To Elon Musk's Criticism; 'We're About To Prove Him Wrong'". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mistake, People, Looks

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise - ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.
  Playing it safe. Following the rules. They seem like the best ways to avoid failure. Alas, that pattern is awfully dangerous. The current marketing “rules” will ultimately lead to failure. In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  Seth Godin

  People, Marketing, Criticism

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