I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.
I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.
It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about. And yet I did that most every year. I've done a lot of failed pilots.
True leaders fail fast and often in order to learn what's necessary to reach the next level of growth and advancement
The arrogance of the human mind is too fragile, as well as the patience of the human character. It is because of that, they fail to see the power of mere observation and systematic analysis.
It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.
It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and out-learn everyone… And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.
I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.
President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.
If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail.
I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
