Failing Quotes - Page 15

More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.

When all else fails, fresh tactics!

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.

It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.

People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.

All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve are the direct results of your thoughts.

Are you wrestling faster than the audience can process? The answer to that question is often times yes. If that is true, then you are failing.

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.