Failing Quotes - Page 23

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. You're away, you miss things. It's taxing. Relationships fail because of it.

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Most organizations fail in driving change.

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.

We all have our strengths and our failings.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

Act as though it is impossible to fail.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.