Failing Quotes - Page 37

• I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Husband, Thinking

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• There is a fallible quality even in the greatest ones,everyone fails once in a while, be it Shah Rukh Khan or Ronaldhino

  Shahrukh Khan

  Quality

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• If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.

  Mary Karr

  Sibling, Mean, Kids

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• Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

  Michael Bennet

  People, Challenges, Care

  "The Politics of 'Yes'” by Sen. Michael Bennet, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Taken, Our Generation

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

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• If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

  Cory Booker

  Civilization, Weakness, Looks

  "Brick Towers" by Cory Booker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2005.

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• This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle-aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

  E. P. Thompson

  Couple, Europe, Groups

  1975 On Britain's entry into the EEC, in the Sunday Times, 27 Apr.

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• The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Data, Tests

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• Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Giving, Way

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• Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Attention, Exhausted

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• When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

  Howard Schultz

  People, Needs, Process

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.

  Loren Eiseley

  Journey, Men, Long

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• What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

  John Podhoretz

  Simple, United States, Bigs

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• Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.

  Moshe Safdie

  Art, Sight, Perfect

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• You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail.

  Gerald Celente

  Four, Bigs, Capitalism

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• The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

  Dan Ariely

  Temptation, Shows, Experiments

  "Why We Lie, Go To Prison And Eat Cake". Interview with Joanna Pearlstein, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.

  Pete Carroll

  Giving Up, People, Care

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• If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.

  Max Heindel

  Loss, Law, Privilege

  Max Heindel (2016). “Simplified Scientific Astrology”, p.11, Max Heindel

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• We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

  Graham Taylor

  World, Cups, Blame

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• I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

  Charlie Trotter

  Faltering

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• Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Financial, Protection, Mutual Fund

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• We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Helping

  "The Future as History". Book by Robert Heilbroner (Chapter IV, Part 9, The Grand Dynamic of History, p. 209), 1960.

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• Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Winning, Independence, Majestic

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• Men never fail to underestimate women.

  Zhao Yun

  Men, Underestimate

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• Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Matter, Succeed

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.288, Serpent's Tail

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