Steven Moffat (Steven William Moffat) Quotes
The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
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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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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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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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I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
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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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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.
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The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
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My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
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Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a 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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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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The essential purpose of Christianity was to transform human society into the kingdom of God by regenerating all human relations and reconstituting them in accordance with the will of God. ...I have never met with any previous attempt to give a satisfactory historical explanation of this failure.
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.
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And for you kids watching at home, remember, the less homework you do and the closer you sit to the TV, the more points you get.
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Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.
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The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
