Failing Quotes
3535 Failing quotes by 2358 unique authors
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I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it .…
— Jorie Graham
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I don't fail. I succeed at finding out what doesn't work.
— Christopher Titus
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Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.
— Jon Foreman
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Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.
— Napoleon Hill
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We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not…
— Francis Schaeffer
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You can accomplish amazing things with this if you have a passion and you work hard - I just think it’s a cop out to…
— Buck Brannaman
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are…
— John Wesley Powell
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
— Bill Bonner
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Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be…
— Paula Scher
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Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and…
— Herodotus
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Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.
— Jan Garbarek
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I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most…
— William Faulkner
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Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That’s why He’s not going to let it fail.
— Paul Washer
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Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.
— Stanley A. McChrystal
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Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear…
— Tim Harford
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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are…
— Richard J. Foster
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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think…
— Albert Einstein
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Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment…
— Michael Dean Crapo
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But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go through: from Dallas,…
— Terrell Owens
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So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!
— Diane Duane
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I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature's laws, and that all…
— Ray Dalio
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School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why…
— Ray Dalio
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
— Vince McMahon
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A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able…
— George Gilder
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