Quotes about fail
failing well-being wells
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it. Sam Harris
failure wrong-answers problem
Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them. Sam Harris
failure balance wells
You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet. Rory McIlroy
failing combination thousand
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work. Thomas A. Edison
failing show-me shows
Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison
failure done way
A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way. Thomas A. Edison
failure president wilson
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. Thomas A. Edison
failure failing
Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option. Thomas A. Edison
failing easy building
Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one. Tony Robbins
failure sleep men
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this. Simone Weil
failure succeed
Nothing succeeds like - failure. Tommy Lasorda
failure problem
My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure. Steve Martin
failing aggression humans
The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression, Stephen Hawking
failure contemplating ifs
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. Simon Cowell
failure america world
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. Sigmund Freud
failure determined-to-succeed way
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
failure want succeed
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. Thomas Watson, Jr.
failure able success-failure
I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything. Raymond Blanc
failure innovation sides
Success is on the far side of failure. Thomas J. Watson
failure procrastination done
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. Rita Mae Brown
failure risk kind
There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure. Richard Marcinko
failure persistence life-knocks-you-down
When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up. Tom Krause
failure thinking effectiveness
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance. Stephen Covey
failure responsibility accepting
It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard! Vaclav Havel
failure progress
Most progress is most failure. Robert Browning
failure succeed lows
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. Robert Browning
failing
Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything Richard Stearns
failure mean acceptance
The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph. Sydney J. Harris
failure criticism lapses
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Susan Sontag
failure science malaria
I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito. Ronald Ross
failure food weight-loss
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. Totie Fields
failing poet ends
Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end. Rick Yancey
failing instruments stage
When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed! Trent Reznor