Failure Quotes
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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
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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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Fear too often spells failure.
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I love how intimate I've become with failure.
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People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.
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It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.
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Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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This day’s failure wasn’t at all about lacking brains; it was about will. It was about ownership. It was about not having much experience or interest in seeing tasks through to completion.
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There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.
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Failure had to change him. When you ask what my role is: From an attorney position, it's having the right systems in place.
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You're never a failure until you fail to get up.
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Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
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Failure is inevitable. If you aren't taking risks, then you won't fail.
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Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
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In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves.
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There is an explanation to these companies’ failure to implement Lean; an explanation that is apparent to any objective observer of a company like Hitachi Tool Engineering. The failure is due to the fundamental difference in the production environments. When Taiichi Ohno developed TPS, he didn’t do it in the abstract; he developed it for his company. It is no wonder that the powerful application that Ohno developed might not work in fundamentally different production environments.
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If we Microsoft Corporation weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.
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To measure success with material things is failure!
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The Fed’s policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living.
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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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I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
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All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
