Lewis Carroll Quotes
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.Lewis Carroll
Quotes to Explore
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama -
I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
Garry Shandling -
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.
Fabrizio Moreira -
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Edgar Degas -
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 -
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
B. F. Skinner -
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
Vin Diesel -
An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'
Damian Lewis -
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
C. S. Lewis -
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
Natalie Goldberg -
I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
Walter Cronkite
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln -
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
Wendell Berry -
Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
E. O. Wilson -
I don't necessarily believe that the sting of failure is a bad thing. It gives you a certain amount of freedom to just say fuck it!
Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins -
If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
Jim Cooper
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Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others.
Albert Bandura -
I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
Natalie Cole -
Burnett fidgeted. She had never seen Burnett like this. He looked like a kid who needed to go to the bathroom.
Christie Craig -
Be loving and kind. Call everyone to your table of kindness.
Ma Jaya -
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
Lewis Carroll