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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure Quotes
What failure costs, and what it sometimes forces.
This page gathers failure quotes on a wide range of subjects: a legal misdemeanor for not filing a form, the long odds behind a legendary TV pilot season, and a blunt wartime statement that failure simply wasn't an option. One entry reflects on a major historical intelligence failure. See Fear for what often sits just behind failure.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds. Surely, enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos. Surely, Occam's razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or even of reliable, soulless efficiency? I suspect future historians will puzzle over our failure. But by then, of course, we shall be in the age of mass space travel, with its fresh and unimaginable crop of horrors.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure.
- Institutions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an artist like Rajnikanth does a film like 'Manichitrathazhu,' it will be a failure.
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- Nov 07, 2020