Failing Quotes - Page 25

I have no illusions about my filmmaking work but I must add I have no illusions about anybody else's either. I am very strict with myself and I think, "no, that could have been improved", "why didn't I put a little bit more then? Why didn't we come out then?" It was what I thought was right at the time and you have to stand by that. And if it completely fails you have got to say, "But that is what I meant at the time.".

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.

You cannot fail at meditation.

Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

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

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

Those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

I exercise every morning without fail. One eyelid goes up and the other follows.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

The only way you can fail is if you stop praying.