Failing Quotes - Page 28

• Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

  Aisha Tyler

  Culture, Want, Hale

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• In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

  Don Tapscott

  Country, Organization, Islands

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Kids, Insecure, Gay

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• In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

  Julie Walters

  Order, Creative, Be Creative

  "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Law, Uniforms

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• We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at the same time their quest was doomed to fail, for all universals break down as soon as the Creator, He who made man in His image, is denied or left out of account.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Art, Greatness, Men

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• If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

  Ira Glass

  Writing, Creating, Lucky

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• Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: "The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try."

  Jess C Scott

  Giving, Inner Peace, Skins

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• If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Average, Devil

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• I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

  Chris Messina

  Thinking, People, Actors

  "Chris Messina: Hollywood's Busiest Man and His Existential Questions". Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

  Douglass North

  School, Way, Graduates

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• Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Short Life, Appreciate

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• What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can.

  Earl Felton

  Hate, Heart

  "Fictional character: Captain Nemo". "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", www.imdb.com. 1954.

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• Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Reality, Thinking, Opposites

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• Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

  Fred Upton

  Obamacare, Law, Promise

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• For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

  Henry Paulson

  Discipline, Risk, Financial

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• Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to keep learning because world keeps changing and competitors keep learning. You have to go to bed wiser than you got up. As you try to master what you are trying to do – people who do that almost never fail utterly. Very few have ever failed with that approach. You may rise slowly, but you are sure to rise.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Practice, People

  "Afternoon Session - 2010 Meeting". buffett.cnbc.com. May 1, 2010.

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• A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

  Charlie Munger

  Rely, Models, Doomed

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• I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Teaching

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• One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Suffering, Might

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.136, Harper Collins

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• I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

  Curt Schilling

  Team, Successful, Guy

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• Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything

  Richard Stearns

  Richard Stearns (2009). “The Hole in Our Gospel: What does God expect of Us? The Answer that Changed my Life and Might Just Change the World”, p.152, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't fear failure because if you don't fail, you would not know the secret of success.

  Sonam Kapoor

  Secret, Knows, Ifs

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• As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

  P. C. Cast

  Real, Hero, Successful

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• Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

  Rian Johnson

  Kids, Piano, Like You

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