Quotes of: Fail Keyword

The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing failed, OK. But the only thing we've got to live with is that it failed.

Joe Strummer

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

Jon Meacham

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

Jonathan Ive

You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying.

Alice Dreger

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Chuck Palahniuk

When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the hunger of a child.

John Art

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

John Mellencamp

Planning is the key to success, course he who fails to plan has actually plan to fail

david ibeyeomie

I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.

James Gray

Alfred: [at Bruce's grave] I'm so sorry. I failed you. You trusted me, and I failed you.

The Dark Knight Rises

Col. Quaritch: [after Jake has failed to get the Omaticaya to evacuate] Well, well, well. I'd say diplomacy has failed.

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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

Vinod Khosla

Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Knowing the Techniques of Survival........ Our fears and anxieties will often drive us to build impenetrable walls that act like blinders deflecting others and preventing us from seeing who surrounds us. Getting focused to the things that matter are ...

I Had Every Excuse to Fail, but I Chose None

The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. A...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

What messes us up a lot in this life is setting our expectations way too high and then being ashamed when we fail. What is worse is when we allow other people to make us feel ashamed for failing. What is worse than that is hiding and lying about our ...

Tanya Masse

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.

The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

Electorates tend to get the politicians they deserve.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

Rita Dove