- Think
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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
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.
- Constitutional Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
- Great Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success is always less funny than failure.
- Common Denominator
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- Nov 07, 2020