Failing Quotes - Page 35

• Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

  Michael Hastings

  War, Media, Government

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• The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

  Gordon MacQuarrie

  Failure, Men, Fishing

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• It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Apology, Mind

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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• I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

  Rob Marshall

  Lines, Chorus, Chorus Line

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• The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.

  Ray Comfort

  Son, Kissing, Reality

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Sep 08, 2014

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• When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.

  Aza Raskin

  Creating, Trying, Way

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• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  Irwin Redlener

  Pandemics, Care, Pay

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• Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

  Jamie Moyer

  Important

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• Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.

  Maria Popova

  Journey, Love Is, Leaving

  "When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships". www.brainpickings.org. April 6, 2015.

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• Most parents don't worry about a daughter until she fails to show up for breakfast.

  Kin Hubbard

  Daughter, Worry, Parent

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• I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Travel, Couple, Home

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• Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Heart, Thinking

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.223

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• Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Girl, Sex

  1846-8 Dombey and Son, ch.1.

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• All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one.

  Michael Parenti

  People, Political, Doctrine

  Michael Parenti (2010). “Democracy for the Few”, p.286, Cengage Learning

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• When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Giving, Trying, Permission

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• Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.

  Aaron Koblin

  Inspiration, Medicine, World

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• There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the Son of God's kingdom.

  Si Robertson

  Mean, Kids, Son

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• Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Church, Down And

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• I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.

  Koren Zailckas

  Strong, Emotion, Argument

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• Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.

  Michael Porter

  Needs, Care, Tests

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• Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Mean, Unique, Psych

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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• If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Use, Way, Succeed

  Lysa TerKeurst (2014). “The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

  C. S. Lewis

  Old Things, Add, Development

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

  Grant Cardone

  Average, Giving, Attention

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Apr 25, 2017

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• The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.

  Confucius

  Men, Office, Mind

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