Failing Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• 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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• When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Desire, Culture, Fragments

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• A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

  Ashley Benson

  Cute, New Year, White

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

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• So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

  Corra May Harris

  Business, Beer, Men

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• The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Book, Science, Vocabulary

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• Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening. But I am held by a thousand bonds, and I don't know when I shall be able to arrange things otherwise. Nor do I know whether, even by writing scientific books, I could live without the laboratory.

  Marie Curie

  Country, Book, Writing

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• Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

  Bob Dylan

  Army, Order, Law

  Song: Subterranean Homesick Blues, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

  Rita Ora

  People, Scared, Disappointing

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

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• The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Real, Hero

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• It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Japan, America, Quality

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• Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

  Chris Pine

  People, Expecting, More Money

  "Chris Pine Talks the STAR TREK Sequel and How J.J. Abrams Chose Scenes That Will 'Really Pop' in IMAX" by Christina Radish, collider.com. June 16, 2012.

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• Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.

  Reince Priebus

  Government, Achievement, Innovation

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• Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

  Rudy Rucker

  Fiction, Principles, Wonder

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• Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.

  Steven Rattner

  Government, Play, Mind

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• Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Believe, Men

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• I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Thinking, Legacy

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• Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

  Julian Barnes

  Writing, Literature, Realizing

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them all-inclusive. They are symbolic representations of something that lies beyond the world of thought and analysis.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Lying, Buddhism

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• If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Government, Demand, Ifs

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• The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

  Nicholas Stern

  Way, Assuming, One Way

  "Nicholas Stern: We must not give in to pessimism" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Guilt, Quitting, Standards

  "A Beautiful Mind" by Bianca Boscer, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

  Aisha Tyler

  Culture, Want, Hale

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