Failing Quotes - Page 40

Blind is not the situation when people cannot see others but when people fail to feel or sense the existence of others

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

I think a lot of people think that just because you have a celebrity attached to your company, that all things are easy. I don't have a stat to back this up, but my experience has shown me that more often than not, celebrity production companies fail.

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don’t let it devour you.

Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

What defenders of the system typically fail to acknowledge is that the reason violent offenders comprise a fairly large percentage of the state prison population is because they typically receive longer sentences than non-violent offenders.

We cannot fail in following nature.

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realize that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

You can't be afraid to fail because that's when you learn.

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

You shouldn't fear failure. You should fear succeeding at the wrong thing. I may fail, but I'm failing at the right thing.

I fear that I will do something to bring harm to those I love," Froi said. "So I follow their rules to ensure that I won't." "But what if you bring harm or fail to protect those you don't know? Or don't love? Will you care as much?" "Probably not." "Then choose another bond. One written by yourself. Because it is what you do for strangers that counts in the end.

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again

The up side of down: why failing well is the key to success.

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.

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.

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

Me fail English? That's unpossible.

When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

You never really fail until you stop wanting.