John Wooden Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
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Fear and the thought of failure . . . But we don't really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you.
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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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I believe in what movies say, and I'm not an actor because I want things to be about me. I have no interest - if there was any way for my face to not be in a movie and still be an actor, I would do it.
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I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.
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Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.
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Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
