Failing Quotes

• From our early investigation, it appears parts from the failing engine penetrated the cabin.

  

  Bill Berry R.E.M.
  • Failing
  • Investigation
  • Cabin

• Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
  • People
  • Trying
  • Dancing

• Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

  

  Paul Davies
  • People
  • Earth
  • Imagination

• We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Children
  • Education
  • Environment

• Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

  

  William James
  • Individual
  • Awake
  • Various

• A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

  

  William Bernbach
  • People
  • Campaigns
  • Ads

• An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Disputes
  • Zeal
  • Eagerness

• The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.

  

  Brent Smith Shinedown
  • Missing
  • Life is
  • Failing

• Because of Jesus' finished work of the cross, He will never be angry with you nor rebuke you even when you fail.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Jesus
  • Angry
  • Crosses

• If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

  

  Ransom Riggs
  • Failure
  • Failing

• Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know because of this. We'll begin with squeamishness, prudishness, timidity and an overdeveloped fear of offending someone... So much for squeamishness and prudishness. There are many other reasons that we editors fail you in this pact you and we have. Let me name a few more: Orthodoxy, conventional thinking, a misplaced pleasure at being on the inside, incompetence and laziness.

  

  Geneva Overholser
  • Reason
  • Pleasure
  • Laziness

• There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

  

  Jonathan Ive
  • Learning
  • Ideas
  • Failing

• There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.

  

  Henry Sy
  • Trying
  • Opportunity
  • Care

• I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Failing

• A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • May
  • City
  • Eyes

• I think all the songs at Moth are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • World
  • Political
  • Failing

• In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Cold

• One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?

  

  Calvin Ayre
  • Wealth
  • Excitement
  • Buzz

• You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.

  

  John Backus
  • Ideas
  • Doe
  • Willingness

• Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Challenges
  • Leader
  • Stranger

• 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.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

  

  William Powell
  • Needs
  • Draws
  • Devices

• Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

  

  Ahmed Chalabi
  • Government
  • Vote
  • Iraq

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