Failure Quotes
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In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don't want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that's pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.
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To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.
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Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.
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Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
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The present called for justice, not for nostalgia over another extravagant failure on the part of blind and incompetent white men.
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People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.
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If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.
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Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.
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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
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It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.
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The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.
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If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.
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If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.
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While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.
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The only risk of failure is promotion.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.
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This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
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Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
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Working at Perfekt, Got me down on my knees. Success to failure, Just a matter of degrees. Working at Perfekt, Got me down on my knees...
