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.
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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.
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The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.
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There can be stresses. 'I don't want to see the look of disappointment in my children's faces. Is it my fault?' The sense that I'm failing my wife, my children.
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The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.
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When people 'succeed' they tend to party, when they 'fail' they tend to ponder.
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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
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America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
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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
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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.
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It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to avoid people and situations that you know drive you crazy. Remember to vote with your feet. If a situation is untenable or unchangeable, walk away.
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Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.
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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.
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.
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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.
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Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.
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Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
