Failure Quotes
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Trying is the first step toward failure.
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Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
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As an entrepreneur, the latitude of failure and of success is directly correlated to people. I am growing more and more attentive to my first instincts, even if I can't justify them, as they apply to people.
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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With the American failure came world failure.
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The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
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The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
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When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
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Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
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Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.
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All actors should experience public failure.
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If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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If all of the issues that I have worked on were depending on some measure of success, it would be a total failure. I don't anticipate success. We're not asked to be successful, we are only asked to be faithful. I couldn't even tell you what success is.
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Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
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The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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Failure is a part of success.
