When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.
Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force.
A lot of people don't get to succeed in life because they fail to put in their very best before leaving the rest in God's hands.
When fail to focus on the light of positivity, the darkness of negativity would start to feel like an unchangeable reality in your life.
It is only when you fail to control your fears through your thoughts and beliefs that they would start to control you.
If you fail to take positive charge of your life, your negative experiences wouldn't hesitate to turn your mind into their playground.
The road to success is not as rough as many think it is; however, a negative mental attitude never fails to complicate it.
The presence of a big obstacle doesn't define a negative life, but failing to face and conquer it, is what builds a wall between oneself and a positive life.
Pain is meant to be temporary as long as you are not willing to give up on yourself. However, quitting never fails to make it last forever.
I am a student of forgiveness and so far I am failing miserably the saving grace is that I will not quit.
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.
Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.
The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.
