Failure Quotes
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.
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When all else fails, fresh tactics!
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Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.
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You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.
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When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.
Chad Hurley -
Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there: women are having more difficulty in business than men.
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Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
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We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.
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Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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I liked the idea of fiasco as failure gone to church, ... How does that become a transcendent thing? And that morphed into the different mini-themes.
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If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.
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It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
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Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
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I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
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There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
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I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.
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Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation. For nothing is impossible to the Subconscious Mind and it operates entirely by suggestion.
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
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I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
