George Horace Lorimer Quotes
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
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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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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
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The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
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I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
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I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual.
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I find rejection or failure to be a really interesting and valuable experience.
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Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
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I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.
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We've been publishing the TechStars data fully since the beginning on TechStars.com. For every single company, you can see if it's a failure, success, how much they raised. Entrepreneurs deserve that sort of transparency from accelerators, and it's not hard to do.
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War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
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I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times.
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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
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I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
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I tend to be a pragmatic person. But I think it takes a lot of courage to act on your feelings without obsessing over what other people will think. I wanted to be that person. That’s how I approached this role.
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
