Judith Butler Quotes

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

Judith Butler

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• 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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• 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.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Failure

• The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Capitalism

• 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.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Long
  • Today
  • Moral

• Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Failure
  • Poverty
  • Hardship

• Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Everything

• While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • School
  • Money
  • Failure

• 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.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Positive

• I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Knowledge
  • Community
  • Democracy

• 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.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Love
  • Power
  • America

• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Failure
  • Content

• After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Good
  • Failure
  • Goal

• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one. (15)

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Failure

• As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • People
  • Lost
  • Health

• Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Beauty
  • Image
  • Infinite

• When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Past
  • Failure
  • Painting

• Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Children
  • Success
  • Knowledge

• Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit many more clubs than Rangers. Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.

  

  Bill Struth
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Philosophy

• The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line 'You cannot be turned down for this coverage!' are actually saying, ' For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose.'

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Life
  • Small
  • Insurance

• You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

  

  Peter Lynch
  • Stock

• The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Failure
  • Image
  • Capture