Failure Quotes
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We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.
Morten Harket A-ha
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To legislation... the Puritans resorted. Instead of guiding, they repressed, and thus pitted themselves against the unconquerable impulses of human nature. Believing that nature to be depraved, they felt themselves logically warranted in putting it in irons. But they failed; and their failure ought to be a warning to their successors.
John Tyndall
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You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
Jerome Lawrence
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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.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
Alice James
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When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.
Chad Hurley -
For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?
Eric Topol
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
Andy Grove
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Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?
R. S. Thomas
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We humanitarians, as our name suggests, believe that man has an ethical duty to man. We believe that the value of any system is measured by the consideration given to all human beings, not just to a favored class: and by that standard, our present system is a miserable failure.
Damon Knight
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So what are we saying?Our Eden's a failure.A made-up story to fit the picture-perfect world.The one with 'I do's and 'I love you.'And 'we are made for each other.'Is forever over now?
Sarah McLachlan
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We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.
Edwin Soeryadjaya
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In any case the road to success is pictured as one beset with perils but which, it would seem, an individual with the proper qualities can overcome to attain the goal. The reward is seen in the distance; the way is lonely. Further on it is a route for wolves; one can succeed only at the cost of the failure of others.
Che Guevara
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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
Arthur Bloch
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Until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.
Mary Barnett Gilson
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Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Bruce Lee
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To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
C. S. Lewis
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I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.
Corey Hart
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When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
Maude Adams
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Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.
Bernard L. Schwartz
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Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.
James Forman, Jr.
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So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Barack Obama
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The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.'
John Scalzi