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• I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.

  James Frey

  Writing, People, Negative

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• One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.

  Joshua Ferris

  Terrible, Conclusion, Feels

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• If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• I intentionally leave adults out in my stories, not to say that they're not in charge or that they don't care, or that they're failing at what they do. Not at all. It's two things: It's a way to be true to what adolescence feels like, because, okay, your parents may be around, but you still don't want them to be around. What you go through, you go through alone, I think.

  Celine Sciamma

  Thinking, Parent, Care

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• Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Successful, Risk, Management

  "Redesigning the Future: a Systems Approach to Societal Problems". Book by Russell L. Ackoff, p. 8, 1974.

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• ..Whoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person which no one can fail to recognize and appreciate.

  Ernest Holmes

  Beautiful, Simple, Appreciate

  Ernest Holmes (2015). “Can We Talk to God?: Ebell Lectures”, p.41, Lulu Press, Inc

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• All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

  Samuel Johnson

  Understanding, Triumph, Acrimony

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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• The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Space, Race

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• Bodybuilding is not just a sport; it's a way of life. If every aspect of your life is not focused on making the sacrifices necessary to build your best physique, you will ultimately fail and never reach your full potential.

  Robert Cheeke

  Sports, Sacrifice, Bodybuilding

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• The words: never, can't, quit, and fail, are not in my vocabulary.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Vocabulary

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• When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that good equals money, or pleasure, or a bit of fame. By being mindful of this you'll quickly forget your anger, especially if you realize that the person was under stress, and could do little else. And, if you can, find a way to alleviate that stress.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Stress, Thinking

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• What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Failure, England, Dies

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• Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Failure, Men

  'Popularity' (1855) st. 1

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• Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

  John Owen

  Failure, Giving, Ruins

  John Owen (1839). “The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: To which are Subjoined, Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ”, p.567

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• If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

  John Milton

  Failure, Earth, Pillars

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1798). “Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...”, p.86

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• I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

  James Russell Lowell

  Failure, Long, Tails

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.256

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• We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Failure, Men, Veils

  Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.51

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• PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Failure, Inspired, Pity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Night, Trying

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2007.

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• Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.

  Ernest Holmes

  Flower, Tree, Abundance

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.408, Penguin

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• When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder.

  Tony Robbins

  Party, People, Succeed

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jan 23, 2015

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• In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.

  Joel Beeke

  Character, Law, Essence

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• The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

  Tom Arnold

  Moving, People, Notches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

  Simon Van Booy

  Mean, Successful, Records

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• What's worth doing even if you fail?

  Brené Brown

  Ifs

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