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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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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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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
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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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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.
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This is a political book... It has a political purpose: to strengthen the will to maintain freedom against the threat of its abandonment in favor of totalitarianism.
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Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
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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.
