Charles Dickens Quotes
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this 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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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.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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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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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
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I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.
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I like a man with some extra padding.
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Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.
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Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
