Failure Quotes
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I love how intimate I've become with failure.
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We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
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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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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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Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.
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Every failure is a step to success.
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Success is failure inside out.
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
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The signal from Schroeder and Chirac to Turkey, that they can be full members, has contributed to the failure of the constitutional treaty.
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Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.
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Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential.
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I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
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Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind us to nature, as denizens of data and artifice, amid crowds and clutter, we become miserly with these loyal and exquisite guides, we numb our sensory intelligence. This failure of attention will make orphans of us all.
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We are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.
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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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Just cause you are a failure does not mean you are an artist.
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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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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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Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.
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The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.
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Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.
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Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
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The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
