It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature's laws,… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work,… — Camille Pissarro Copy Share Image
That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it.… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Playing what Hollywood determines is a hero, it immediately sets actors up to feel like they just can't explore the dark parts… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
If you watch Rafael Nadal play tennis, you can only respond with amazement and great admiration. He is an incredible athlete with… — Steffi Graf Copy Share Image
All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
The Bush Administration believes the Kyoto protocol could damage our collective prosperity, and in so doing, actually put our long-term environmental health… — Lawrence B. Lindsey Copy Share Image
You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. "I never wanted to be an… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions...… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“Many people who became successful were once first time global failures. But because they didn't give up on their dreams, failure could… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When people get in trouble with addiction, it's because they're holding themselves to too high a standard and because they're not meeting… — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged.… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood,… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Somehow we've even developed the notion that a woman who seeks to meet her husband's needs is subservient (but a husband who… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs,… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
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