Failure Quotes
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Every failure is a step to success.
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As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.
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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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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
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Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization23 and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning. People with alexithymia can get better only by learning to recognize the relationship between their physical sensations and their emotions, much as colorblind people can only enter the world of color by learning to distinguish and appreciate shades of gray.
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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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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
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War is failure of diplomacy.
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Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.
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I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
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A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
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The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
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Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
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When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success.
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Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
