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" The wisest of the wise may err. "
Aeschylus
Wise
May
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" I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find. "
Steven Spielberg
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" The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high. "
John P. Kotter
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" Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. "
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" War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies. "
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" My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. "
Jack Kerouac
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" 'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. "
Tommy Lasorda
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" Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind. "
Natalie Massenet
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" My life has been nothing but a failure. "
Claude Monet
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" Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. "
Glenn Beck
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Without
" What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? "
Aeschylus
Guest
Host
More
" He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. "
Aeschylus
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Who
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" The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life. "
James R. Clapper
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" A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. "
Elbert Hubbard
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Man
" Man is not made for defeat. "
Ernest Hemingway
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Man
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" One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. "
John W. Gardner
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" When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again. "
Jane McGonigal
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" As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion. "
M. Stanton Evans
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" I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed. "
Dolly Parton
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God
Reflection
" Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. "
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You
Failure
" By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. "
Jonathan Kozol
People
Young
Success
" No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers. "
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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" Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it. "
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" We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. "
Robert E. Lee
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" We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure. "
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" Failure is a word unknown to me. "
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Word
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Me
" I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. "
Tony Robbins
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" Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. "
John Mayer
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" Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes. "
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" Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. "
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