"This idea that failure is not an option:……" — Rory Stewart
"This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable."
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29 Quotes by Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart has 29 quotes on this site.
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I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.
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I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said,…
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The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.
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If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their…
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In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey,…
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Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
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The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient…
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I do a lot of work with policymakers, but how much effect am I having? It’s like they’re coming in…
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The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees…
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Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.
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In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could…
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More Failure Quotes
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
— Karen Armstrong
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
— Lance Armstrong
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get…
— Jensen Ackles
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't…
— Michele Bachmann
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