“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
— George Edward Woodberry
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Failure is always an option.
“Failure is always an option.”
— Adam Savage
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By far the most important factor in
“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.”
— Jonathan Kozol
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The very reasons sometimes that you make
“The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.”
— Sydney Pollack
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Why do I talk about the benefits
“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”
— J. K. Rowling
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The biggest problem in my life is
“The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.”
— Ethan Hawke
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While it is important for people to
“While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.”
— Bryant H. McGill
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The failure of academic feminists to recognize
“The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.”
— Audre Lorde
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It has always seemed strange to me…
“It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
— John Steinbeck
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Think like a queen. A queen is
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
— Oprah Winfrey
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Indecision and delays are the parents of
“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.”
— George Canning
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