Failing Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, May, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.178, Penguin

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• We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Failure, Thinking, Cost

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• Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.

  Robert Ardrey

  Bird, Population, May

  ROBERT ARDREY (1966). “THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE”

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• Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

  Bernard Baruch

  Passion, Thinking, Knowing

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• We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Failure, Adversity, Blessing

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• You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.

  Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

  Appreciation, Shining, May

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• We have close to us as much as Joseph had at Nazareth; we have our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, but our poor eyes fail to see Him. Let us once become interior souls and we shall immediately see. In no better way can we enter into the Heart of our Lord than through Saint Joseph. Jesus and Mary are eager to pay the debts which they owe him for his devoted care of them, and their greatest pleasure is to fulfill his least desire. Let him, then, lead you by hand into the interior sanctuary of Jesus Eucharistic.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Blessed, Eye

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• We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.

  Jan Phillips

  Memories, Regret, Fear

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• Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Memories, Office, Buried

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• Whenever God looks devilish, I see the philosopher fail.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Failure, Looks

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• The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.

  Wendell Berry

  Character, Culture, Answers

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.198, Counterpoint Press

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• If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Stars, Powerful, Eye

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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• If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

  Will Ferrell

  Trying, Want, Way

  "Megamind - Will Ferrell interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.

  Ray LaHood

  Swings, Bridges, Rivers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think it's a dance that people want to see. It's a chemistry that people want to see. In the same way that people don't want to see a perfect hero with no flaws who can handle anything, people don't want to see a perfect relationship. There's nothing interesting about that. People want to see you fail.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.

  Shiri Appleby

  Feel Better, Accomplished, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.

  Jason Calacanis

  Life, Stars, Simple

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• Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence... where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense; anxiety enters immediately. How to do? What to do? How to succeed? How not to fail? You have already moved into the future.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Anxiety, Succeed

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• What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, What If, Dirt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Weakness, Sides

  Joseph Addison (1825). “Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.1

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• I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.

  Robert Frost

  Fun, Men, Laughing

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too.

  Hal Borland

  Distance, Eye, Autumn

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• Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Common, Corruption

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.107

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• The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

  Samuel Johnson

  Influence, Argument, Purity

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.194

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