Failing Quotes - Page 34

• When you gossip about another person, listeners unconsciously associate you with the characteristics you are describing, ultimately leading to those characteristics' being “transferred” to you. So, say positive and pleasant things about friends and colleagues, and you are seen as a nice person. In contrast, constantly complain about their failings, and people will unconsciously apply the negative traits and incompetence to you.

  Richard Wiseman

  Nice, Gossip, People

  Richard Wiseman (2009). “59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot”, p.58, Anchor

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• It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.

  Pete Carroll

  Giving Up, People, Care

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• Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, theres a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe theres another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Sports, Mistake, Opportunity

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• If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.

  Max Heindel

  Loss, Law, Privilege

  Max Heindel (2016). “Simplified Scientific Astrology”, p.11, Max Heindel

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• We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

  Graham Taylor

  World, Cups, Blame

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• Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs.

  Colin McGinn

  Mean, People, Important

  "Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason", billmoyers.com. June 30, 2006.

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• What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

  Daniel Quinn

  Normal

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• I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

  Charlie Trotter

  Faltering

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• Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Financial, Protection, Mutual Fund

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• A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

  David Puttnam

  Country, Teacher, Values

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• We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Helping

  "The Future as History". Book by Robert Heilbroner (Chapter IV, Part 9, The Grand Dynamic of History, p. 209), 1960.

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• Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Winning, Independence, Majestic

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God. Every president has taken comfort and courage when toldthat the Lord 'will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed.' Each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God. Those who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

  John F. Kennedy

  Taken, Men, Office

  "John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

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• He who wins people, prospers; he who loses them, fails. Your present plan should be to seek humans of high aims and farseeing views, and you can establish yourself firmly.

  Zhou Yu

  Winning, Views, People

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• Men never fail to underestimate women.

  Zhao Yun

  Men, Underestimate

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• Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Matter, Succeed

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.288, Serpent's Tail

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• I ask to become a faery because I love a faery queen, and because she deserves to have someone who loves her for who she is, not what she is. She needs me. There are people-good people-I love and I'm a liability to them because I'm a mortal. I'm fragile. I'm fine. I am in this world. People I care about, the woman I love, friends in all three of the courts This is where I belong. I just need you to give me what it takes to stay with them and be strong enough not to fail them.

  Melissa M

  Strong, Queens, People

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• Trying to be the best. Failing. Getting back up. Those characteristics are going to allow you to make great decisions. They are going to allow you to compete. They are going to allow you to achieve your best. That's the American dream.

  Ronnie Lott

  Dream, Getting Back Up, Decision

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• If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.

  Peter Kreeft

  Practice, Feelings, Good Intentions

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.43, Ignatius Press

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• There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.

  Anne Beatts

  Real, Night, Squares

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• Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.

  Matt Salmon

  Should Have, Government, Decision

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• I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling; there have been grand chords.

  James Salter

  Men, Storm, Months

  "Ali? Laver? Best? No, the Williams sisters" by Will Buckley, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

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• I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.

  Mother Angelica

  Dying, Done, Might

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• Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

  James Altucher

  Love You, Sacrifice, Ideas

  "Wall Street’s ‘Eat What You Kill’ Motto Is the Only Way to Live" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

  Jesse Schell

  Technology, Patterns, Bigs

  "Jesse Schell: Xbox, PlayStation and the Innovator's Dilemma". Interview with Matthew Handrahan, www.gamesindustry.biz. August 5, 2013.

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