Failure Quotes
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Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable.
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Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
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To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
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How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.'
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People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
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Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.
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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.
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One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.
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Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.
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Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.
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Failed the bright promise of your early day?
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The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.
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I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
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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.
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For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything less than that is a failure.
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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
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It's fascinating to me: when it comes to innovation in policy, it all comes from the states, ... It reflects an abject failure of policy (at the national level) in terms of dealing with energy, the environment or the securities industry. And into that void, the states have stepped.
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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
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'I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature,' he said, irritated at my failure to respond. 'Nature's virtue is intact,' I reassured him. 'I just know some different laws.'
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Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
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One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.
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The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
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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.
