Failing Quotes
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The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.
Tony Scott
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Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
William Hazlitt
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We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.
Adele Parks
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
Seth Godin
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It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.
L. Ron Hubbard
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It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.
George Horace Lorimer
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The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.
Kevin Warsh
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If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.
Vinnie Jones
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Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle
Chip Heath
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His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.
Dan Morgenstern
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You have these Stepford wives who are negating other women. But that's their job. [Donald] Trump is the one who is to blame, no matter how much I enjoy watching his surrogates fail massively.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail
Masashi Kishimoto
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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
William Barclay
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I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.
Lois McMaster
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We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."
Anthony Robbins
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Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs.
Colin McGinn
