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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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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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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Television, cable, features are always out there.
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The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
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I hope to go on and on.
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Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
