Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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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 grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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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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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
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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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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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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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The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear 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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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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I wanted to play baseball!
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One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.
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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
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I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
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I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.
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I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.
