David Cooperrider Quotes

We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

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

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• 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
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Failure

• 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

• I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Religious
  • Causes
  • Intolerance

• 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
  • Friend
  • Failure
  • Years

• When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Free
  • Discover

• 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
  • Done
  • Success
  • Failure

• Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Money
  • Failure
  • Bank

• The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• 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
  • World
  • Important
  • Game

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Failure
  • Content

• 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
  • God
  • Moving
  • Failure

• 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
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Famous

• A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

  

  Charles Inglis
  • War
  • Failure

• 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
  • American
  • Food
  • Single

• As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

  

  Jason Giambi
  • Fear
  • Player
  • Failure

• 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
  • Live
  • Success
  • Learning

• 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
  • Work
  • Art
  • Failure

• Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Causes

• They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • God
  • Heaven

• Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Different
  • Single

• The Internet is a really strange place to be.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Internet
  • Strange
  • Places

• We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.

  

  David Cooperrider
  • Failure
  • Causes
  • Discover