John Mayer Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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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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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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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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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.
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
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I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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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.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
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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.'
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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.
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I love language, and I love the failure of language.
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
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I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.
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The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.
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The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
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Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
