Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.
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I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
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The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
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The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.
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I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.
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Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.
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The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.
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Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.
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The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
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What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can.
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Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).
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Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
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Love wins when everything else will fail.
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The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.
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90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
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My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my own writing to failure. I want to fail. I want to go to a place where I don't know what I'm doing, where maybe I'm lost. And in that uncertain space, I make decisions, and I know all those decisions are going to change everything else. And at a certain point, you just come to a place of rest. In revising, you reduce your options so that nothing is possible, and you just think, I can't change this anymore because I've already passed that decision point.
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If you bet on individuals, instead of the people, you are going to fail.
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While it's certainly true that raising children is a big job and certainly has emotional resonance, it's really hard to intellectually justify the belief that you're adding something important to the world by adding more people to pollute the planet and compete for opportunities that become more precious as the number of people vying for a chance grows.”
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For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.
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Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.
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Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.
