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If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

Peter Drucker
Opportunity, Failing, Despite
Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.62, Routledge

Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

Paulo Coelho
Enthusiasm, Defeat, Despite
Paulo Coelho (2013). “Manuscript Found in Accra”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

Michael Hutchence
Together, Private Life, Despite
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

Margaret Atwood
Despite, One Thing
Margaret Atwood (1987). “Lady Oracle”, Fawcett

Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.

Lynn Emanuel
Lovely, Diction, Despite
Lynn Emanuel (2015). “The Nerve Of It: Poems New and Selected”, p.50, University of Pittsburgh Press

It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.

Halldór Laxness
Old Saying, Stills, Despite
Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Despite, Without Love

Despite what I do for a living, I am very insecure about my body.

Erin Andrews
Insecure, Body, Despite

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

Daniel Radcliffe
Thinking, Facts, Despite

For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.

Courtney Love
Years, Taste, Despite
"Courtney Love: ‘I’d Like to Be Trusted Again.’" by Eric Wilson, www.nytimes.com. November 5, 2010.

In Cuba, despite having lived through the most difficult times, there has never been a neo liberal adjustment.

Alejandro Castro Espin
Cuba, Difficult Times, Despite
"The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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