Unsuccessful Quotes - Page 6

• I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close - a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.

  Bette Midler

  Sex, Couple, Cadillacs

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• My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.

  Huey Lewis

  Kissing, First Kiss, Firsts

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• Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

  John Spence

  Inspirational, Leadership, Successful

  John Spence (2011). “Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action (Large Print 16pt)”, p.205, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

  Enoch Powell

  Years, Russia, Challenges

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• I am a registered Democrat (there are only two Republicans in Maryland and they're both in office) and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office myself.

  Jack L. Chalker

  Two, Office, Democrat

  "Dance Band on the Titanic".

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• The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

  Jack White

  Jealousy, Art, Hurt

  Jack White (2013). “Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

  John Templeton

  Failure, Fall, Doors

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• When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know the evolution of the disease, its duration and gravity in order to predict its course and outcome. Here statistics intervene to guide physicians, by teaching them the proportion of mortal cases, and if observation has also shown that the successful and unsuccessful cases can be recognized by certain signs, then the prognosis is more certain.

  Claude Bernard

  Teaching, Successful, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Moving, Land

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Time, Men, Chance

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• Success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone's rules or advice, our own any more than any other person's. There is no royal road to success- no patent process by which the unsuccessful are to be magically transformed. . . . Rules and advice may greatly assist-and they undoubtedly do this-but the real work must be accomplished by the individual. He or she must carve out his or her own destiny.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Success, Real, Destiny

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• I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Smart, Successful, Differences

  "The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business". Book by Patrick Lencioni, 2012.

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• To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

  Chester Bennington

  Successful, Being Successful, Genre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It's always the unsuccessful ones. Look at Seinfeld - he's great because he let everyone be hilarious.

  Paul Feig

  Stars, People, Looks

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• The most frequent reason for unsuccessful advertising is advertisers who are so full of their own accomplishments (the world's best seed!) that they forget to tell us why we should buy (the world's best lawn!).

  John Caples

  Accomplishment, World, Advertising

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• There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who 'fail' at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompetent, incapable even of getting their dying quite right.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Successful, Dying

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.72, Pan Macmillan

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• Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

  J. G. Holland

  Failure, Men, Use

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• I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.

  Nadya Suleman

  Years, Trying, Seven

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Father, Book, Oysters

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Years, Three, Cost

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• I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

  Lisa Ling

  Husband, Needs, Mets

  "Lisa Ling ‘Our America’: Journalist Talks Pregnancy, Gets Candid For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people won't do.

  Jeff Olson

  Successful, People, Successful People

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• The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.

  Robert Haugen

  Running, Mistake, Successful

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 142, 1999.

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• The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Law, Chiefs

  Instructions to his negotiators regarding a treaty with Spain, April 1792; cited in Knott, Secret and Sanctioned (1996).

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• Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome.

  Robert Rubin

  Successful, Thoughtful, Decision

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