Failing Quotes
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What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.
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Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.
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Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.
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The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.
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We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.
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To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.
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So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
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When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.
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Don’t worry about failing. Worry about failing wrongly.
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Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.
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If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail
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Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.
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The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.
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I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.
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God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
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Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.
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When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
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Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference.
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I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.
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I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
