David Cooperrider Quotes
We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.
Quotes to Explore
-
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama
-
I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
Taylor Sheridan
-
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
-
I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
Vikram Seth
-
My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
Natalie Cole
-
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
Ralph Ellison
-
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
Florence Scovel Shinn
-
Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
Dan Gilbert
-
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
Lady Gregory
-
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.
Adam Grant
-
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
-
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
Oprah Winfrey
-
Well, I could have been a famous singerIf I had someone else's voiceBut failure's always sounded betterLet's fuck it up, boys, make some noise!
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
-
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
Charles Inglis
-
Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.
Jerry Brown
-
As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.
Jason Giambi
-
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
Kevin Bacon
-
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
Brian Ferneyhough
-
The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.
Elon Musk
-
I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
Bryce Dallas Howard
-
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
-
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
Johann Most
-
We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.
David Cooperrider