The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That… — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
You will fail many times but in failing you'll learn and in learning you'll find your way. Remember, there are no mistakes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Few relationships are as critical to the business enterprise itself as the relationship to government. The manager has responsibility for this relationship… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Indeed, it would be great if we could all be liberated through reason, but I think it only gets us part of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
When sight ceases, it is the time for faith to work. The greater the difficulties, the easier it is for faith. As… — George Muller Copy Share Image
The very ability to empathize with a user requires that I have an understanding of that user's value and needs. This is… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose. There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes holdJust that… — Ian Curtis Copy Share Image
“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject… — Plato Copy Share Image
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before,… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work,… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a… — Geoffrey Sampson Copy Share Image
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful… — Alan Hassenfeld Copy Share Image
Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
“I observed that most global achievers were first time global failures. It means, when you fail at your first attempt, perhaps that… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There is a divine moment in our lives when we become One. It is called pro-creation and it is reborn continually and… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within… — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
[ Oval House] director, Peter Oliver, gave you the right to fail. He had a philosophy that came from Winston Churchill that… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image