Failures Quotes
896 quotes by 681 authors
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Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every…
— Hermann Bondi
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If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies,…
— William Martin
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Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure…
— Malcolm Mclaren
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I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't…
— Sydney Pollack
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When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the…
— Nick Clooney
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Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.
— Bob Dylan
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The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.
— Bruce Feiler
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I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who…
— Danny Huston
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It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime…
— Steven Johnson
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We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a…
— Steven Johnson
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I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
— Vinod Khosla
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We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures…
— Charlie Pierce
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For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system…
— Charles Bass
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If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
— Richard Rosen
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Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Eternity is a constant learning process. It will be another grade, another step, a chance to do what we failed to do before and to…
— David Berg
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The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,…
— Walt Whitman
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