I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival… — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Most parents don't worry about a daughter until she fails to show up for breakfast. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
Failure is always present as an actor. I make my living by taking chances. If I'm not risking something, then I'm not… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the… — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
