Failing Quotes - Page 26

• I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.

  Cliff Richard

  Christian, Mean, Artist

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• The particular province of the shaman is the province of soul, that which feeds our embodied life, or fails to feed it. From a shamanic point of view, the relationship with animal allies, or animals that show themselves in animal forms, is a vital part of living. We're fully embodied, with full access to our natural soul energy.

  Robert Moss

  Animal, Views, Soul

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• Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Littles, Thousand

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.606, Manonmani Publishers

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• Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader.

  Scott McCloud

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• How does the richest country in the history of the world fail to pay its bills?

  Rick Perry

  Country, Doe, World

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• Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise as the relationship to the government. Managers have responsibility for this relationship as part of their responsibility to the enterprise itself. It is an area of social impact of the business. To a large extent the relationship to government results from what businesses do or fail to do.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Government, Lobbyists

  "Management".

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• It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.

  Twiggy

  Children, Animal, Care

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• Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Perfect, Gossip, Ugly

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• I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as many ways as I can - if all else fails - I tell 'em a joke!

  Jo Brand

  Cheer, Thinking, People

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• Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Love Is, Voice

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• The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen (or recovering the natural capacity to listen) we can find ourself engulfed in such happiness that it cannot be explained: the happiness of being at one with everything in that hidden ground of Love for which there can be no explanations.... May we all grow in grace and peace, and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.

  Thomas Merton

  Simple, Reality, Silence

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• But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Wisdom, Father, Finals

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

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• If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

  Neil Bogart

  Business, Hype, Genius

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• Unfortunately, they develop a fixed mindset that they're the most talented, and they think that continued success is a right. Problems arise because pure talent only works as long as the going is easy. Furthermore, they don't take risks because failure would harm their image of being the best, brightest, and most talented. When they do fail, they deny it or attribute it to anything but their shortcomings.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Success, Business, Thinking

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• No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the most important problems they think they can solve. It is, after all, their professional business to solve problems, not merely to grapple with them.

  Peter Medawar

  Lying, Science, Thinking

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• All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Democracy, Usual, Terrorism

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Advice, Risk

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• ... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.

  Iris Murdoch

  Home, Sick, People

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.74, Penguin

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• It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Mistake, Past, Men

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• If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.

  Allan Nevins

  Art, Past, Ideas

  Allan Nevins (1975). “Allan Nevins on history”

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• In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs-and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Song, Cancer, Heart

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• Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

  Bram Cohen

  Technology, Views, Law

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• I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Children, Stress, Decision

  "Kara DioGuardi's 'A Helluva High Note': Quit Not Fired From 'American Idol' and More Secrets" by Kate Aurthur, www.thedailybeast.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

  Charles Edison

  Jobs, Men, Hands

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