“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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Rather than viewing a brief relapse back
“Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.”
— Jimmy Connors
Author: Jimmy Connors
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The vast majority of large scale change
“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.”
— John P. Kotter
Author: John P. Kotter
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We have actually experienced in recent months
“We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.”
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I think he Oswald felt he was
“I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.”
— John Sherman Cooper
Author: John Sherman Cooper
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Is the proposed operation likely to succeed?
“Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?”
— Chester W. Nimitz
Author: Chester W. Nimitz
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Do not brood over your past mistakes
“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”
— Sivananda
Author: Sivananda
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I constantly experience failure in that my
“I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.”
— Jeremy Irons
Author: Jeremy Irons
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Something is wanting, and something must be
“Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.”
— Henry Knox
Author: Henry Knox
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I was taught that to create anything
“I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.”
— Malcolm Mclaren
Author: Malcolm Mclaren
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In a sense it might even be
“In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.”
— Walter Pater
Author: Walter Pater
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