Failed Quotes
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You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
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We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.
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I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.
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I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
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I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.
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We're now on the precipice of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need to do is to go back to the policies that failed us in the first place.
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It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried.
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You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.
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It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.
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Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.
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That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.
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Ask any mechanic; instructions were the things you read when all else failed.
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It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things I’ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.
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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.
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No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
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The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.
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The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.
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Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed.
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American culture at large has failed working mothers.
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I don't consider myself a nerd; I consider myself a dork more. I'm closer to a dork, if anything, just because I'm not good at stuff. I'm more like a failed non-nerd.
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A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.
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I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.
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Poets are band leaders who have failed.
