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" It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. "
Eric Hoffer
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" It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. "
Eric Hoffer
Ears
Opinion
Power
" Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. "
Edward Abbey
Belief
Failure
Reflects
" I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure. "
Emanuel Steward
Failure
Fear
Motivational
" Our country's got a sin problem, and I believe if these politicians in Washington would recognize the moral failure of so many of their policies that maybe we could fix it. "
Franklin Graham
Problem
Moral
Sin
" In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. "
Seth Godin
Same
Invisible
Busy
" The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. "
Benjamin E. Mays
Life
Above
Complacency
" The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads. "
Steven Moffat
Playing
Difference
You
" Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. "
Phyllis Schlafly
Nature
Human Nature
Feminism
" Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it. "
Rudy Giuliani
Mistakes
Failure
History
" It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. "
Eric Hoffer
Man
Playground
Child
" Facts are counterrevolutionary. "
Eric Hoffer
Facts
" All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence. "
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Faith
Failure
Confidence
" After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters, women - but was met with a counter-narrative that, in fact, it was Romney's failure to be conservative enough that led to a depressed Republican base. "
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Failure
Reach
Women
" Innovation demands risk-taking - which, in turn, entails redefining failure, stripping away its power to inhibit. "
Lynne Doughtie
Innovation
Power
Turn
" If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises. "
George Muller
Say
Trust
See
" When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure. "
Ginni Rometty
Failure
School
Father
" It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. "
Eric Hoffer
Become
Judge
Own
" It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. "
Eric Hoffer
Feeling
Destiny
Which
" Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living. "
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Just
Death
Failure
" For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. "
Mary Kay Ash
You
Action
Failure
" Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. "
Eric Hoffer
Need
Faith
Mountains
" Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. "
John Dewey
Failure
Person
Thinks
" Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. "
J. K. Rowling
Away
Failure
Stripping
" Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. "
Gary Ryan Blair
Seize
Failure
More
" Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs. "
Hope Jahren
Science
Business
Failure
" There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people, and times when a game that is built around overcoming failure can teach us all a few important lessons. "
Theo Epstein
People
Overcoming
Failure
" It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. "
Eric Hoffer
Nobody
Immigrants
Hate
" The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic. "
Geoffrey Boycott
Own
Magic
Failure
" Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. "
Tony Jaa
Stone
Afraid
Improvement
" I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. "
Molly Ringwald
More
Failure
I Wish