The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four… — Brian Johnson Copy Share Image
Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So, the great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
In the 21st Century, the community of nations may see more and more of this very kind of threat that Iraq poses… — Sandy Berger Copy Share Image
When the thunder rumbles, Now the age of gold is dead. When the dreams we've clung to Trying to stay young, Have… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I was afraid that that Catch-22 would cause VR to fail to achieve liftoff. That worry is now gone. Facebook's acquisition of… — Michael Abrash Copy Share Image
There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
We don't really know how technology will affect narrative. That's the question. See, people used to say that the novel is going… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don't understand… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his… — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
I do worry that we're failing in a whole bunch of fundamental ways to distinguish for our kids between needs and wants.… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay… — Chrissie Wellington Copy Share Image
Dont be afraid to fail. Dont waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the… — H Stanley Judd Copy Share Image
This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone's a failure as long as they're still innocent. Just a little. They may lose everything good in them… — Charlotte Bingham Copy Share Image
When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You… — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my… — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
I had a horrible 2020. Besides the Covid thing, I had a big professional failing: I came very close to getting a… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image