Failure Quotes - Page 31

• Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

  Douglas Coupland

  Opportunity, Sometimes, Disguise

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.147, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.

  Ronald Ross

  Science, Malaria, Mosquitoes

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• Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working.

  Joseph Murray

  Mean, Science, Thinking

  "A Conversation With: Joseph E. Murray; On Surgical Innovation And The Questions It Can Raise". Interview With Cornelia Dean, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2001.

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• When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Science, Light, Ignorant

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• The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.

  Carroll Quigley

  Spain, West, Influence

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• To win you've got to stay in the game.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Inspiration, Winning, Games

  Claude M. Bristol, Harold Sherman (1992). “TNT: The Power Within You”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Running, Eye

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• You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Lying, Fall, Optimism

  Edmund Vance Cooke, “How DID You Die?”

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• Anyone can take a false step And fall forever, Everyone is different. Where are they now, all those lost souls?

  Nguyen Du

  Fall, Forever, Soul

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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

  Thinking, Cost, Awful

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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

  Adversity, Blessing, Flames

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• For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

  Alice Kahn

  Life, Women, Science

  "The Brain is Wider Than the Sky by Bryan Appleyard - review" by Simon Ings, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2011.

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• The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

  Kedar Joshi

  Philosophy, Past, Self

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

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Looks, Philosopher

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• People are afraid to think, or they don't know how. They fail to realize that, while emotions can't be suppressed, the mind can be strengthened. All over the world people are seeking peace of mind, but there can be no peace of mind without strength of mind.

  Eric Gutkind

  Peace, Thinking, People

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• In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

  Paul Lutus

  Political, Opinion, Students

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• Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

  Laozi

  Rushing, Trying, Ruins

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• To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, People, Giving

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• I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, Legacy, Company

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• A vice is a failure of desire

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Desire, Vices

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• There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.

  Alan Cohen

  Jobs, Attitude, Two

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• In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teaching, Causes

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

  Thomas Sowell

  Success, Science, High Standards

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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