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failure men teach
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn. Charles Dickens
failure excuse confession
Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions. Charles Simmons
failure way failing
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty. Al Neuharth
failing
How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand! David Mitchell
failure people sound
It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of. Bryan Ferry
failure government slavery
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery. Carter G. Woodson
failing exception
Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive. Calamity Jane
failed fire happened looking mac move prepare ways wish
We've all failed in different ways and, now, it's up to us. Obviously, the organization is looking to move into a better direction, so this should be a sign. We need to improve. All Mac could do was prepare us. He couldn't play for us. I wouldn't wish what happened to him on anybody, but you can't fire all of us. Rob Mackowiak
failed huge
Where they failed was in what to do with this huge bulk. Jeffrey Robinson
figure later might stretching together trying
We started stretching together later in the game, trying to figure out who we might have to face. Frank Catalanotto
figure gave girls handle press quarter second struggled teach
We struggled with their press in the second quarter and then we gave up way too many baskets in the third. I need to figure out how to teach the girls to handle the press better. But overall, I was encouraged.
figure help people places starting team trying
We are a team that is still trying to find its identity. We are trying to find the right people to put in the right places with the right combination of people that will help us the most, but we are starting to figure that out I believe.
figure happened spent trying
We spent probably two hours, twice, trying to figure out what happened there. Grant Wilson
figure recipes sit
At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Martina McBride
figure scene subtext
I like to really know what every scene is about, what the text is, what the subtext is. Then I figure out how to express that when I'm shooting.
figure gotten since wrote
I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.
figure trying ways
I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance. Gretchen Rubin
figure mark next pairs push skating
We want to put our mark on the sport and push pairs figure skating to next level. John Baldwin
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
grows ifs
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
growing-up women thinking
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.
growth credit might
There might be some credit in being jolly.
growing-up people needs
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. Alan Watts
growing-up book comic
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. Alan Ritchson
growing late critique
A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s. Alan Moore
growing bigs distrust
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.
growing-up school boys
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
growing-up hands world
A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?
hire money movies people tend
The people who make those movies tend to be studios, because they need a lot of money to do it, and those people don't hire me. Catherine Keener
hire people
Our team at Duolingo is really cohesive, but this did not just happen. I made a concerted effort to hire people who are going to play nice. Luis von Ahn
hired joined marvel production school stan vietnam visual year
I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.
hired legal sure
We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.
hire knew people
We were being attacked. We wanted to hire people who knew how to respond.
hire
We don't have any equipment. We would hire it and right now that's still to be determined.
hire
We're going to hire a lawyer, ... It's the only thing we can do.
hired home human minimum paid premium
Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage. Kenneth Langone
hire sake
Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do. Sam Altman
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed.
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
learn offspring reason
We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate.
learn people stop tolerant
We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.
opportunity deuces letters
Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.
opportunity men often-is
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
opportunity female lovers
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
opportunity mind glory
The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.
opportunity extremity
Our extremities are God's opportunities. Charles Spurgeon
opportunity honor denial
When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.
opportunity library today
I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
opportunity voice people
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
opportunity giving people
I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity. Alan Green
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule