Quotes of: When-all-else-fails Keyword

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

R. D. Laing

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity

Dogrun

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume e...

Daniel Kahneman

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-win...

Michelle Malkin

When you succeed, everyone wants to be part of it; but when you fail everyone seems outsider.

M.F. Moonzajer

I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.

Ryan Sheckler

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

Greil Marcus

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Elie Wiesel

Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.

Elliott Abrams

I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

Vince McMahon

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

Mary Lyon

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Robert E. Lee

When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.

Linda Hunt

Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews, the friends' embarrassment, ...

Sarah Waters

Violence begins when imagination fails.

Stephen Evans

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

Yo-Yo Ma

Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political readjustment can possibly save our civilization; we can...

The Prodigal World

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road.

All These Things I've Done

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

Tom Cruise

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

Lisa Randall