- 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
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever a chef cooks for his own ego rather than his guests, he/she set themselves up for ridicule and failure. In the end, it's the service industry. Our goal is to make our guests happy through our cooking.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success unshared is failure.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is always time for failure.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure's a natural part of life.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020