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Alice Foote MacDougall on failure
Author: Alice Foote MacDougall“I simply don’t believe in failure. In itself, it doesn’t exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.” -Alice Foote MacDougall
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Rodney Alexander on failure
Author: Rodney Alexander“I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.” -Rodney Alexander
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Millicent Fawcett on failure
Author: Millicent Fawcett“The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.” -Millicent Fawcett
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Gordon Moore on failure
Author: Gordon Moore“With engineering, I view this year’s failure as next year’s opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.” -Gordon Moore
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Roland Gift on failure
Author: Roland Gift“Our managers hadn’t had that kind of success – the record company hadn’t, we hadn’t – and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn’t it would be some kind of failure.” -Roland Gift
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Mike Peters on failure
Author: Mike Peters“It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you’d signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now… unless you’ve signed to a big label, you’re a failure now.” -Mike Peters
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William Empson on failure
Author: William Empson“Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.” -William Empson
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Ed Case on failure
Author: Ed Case“The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington’s failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.” -Ed Case
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An Wang on failure
Author: An Wang“You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.” -An Wang
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Scott Brown on failure
Author: Scott Brown“I’ve criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There’s plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It’s not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That’s how we’re gonna do it, not by enlarging government.” -Scott Brown
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George Allen on failure
Author: George Allen“I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.” -George Allen
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Paul Twitchell on failure
Author: Paul Twitchell“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.” -Paul Twitchell
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Jason Giambi on failure
Author: Jason Giambi“As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.” -Jason Giambi
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Thomas John Watson, Sr. on failure
Author: Thomas John Watson, Sr.“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” -Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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Eli Khamarov on failure
Author: Eli Khamarov“One failure is worth seven and a half successes.” -Eli Khamarov
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Frederick Smith on failure
Author: Frederick Smith“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.” -Frederick Smith
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Anna Garlin Spencer on failure
Author: Anna Garlin Spencer“The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.” -Anna Garlin Spencer
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Arthur Bloch on failure
Author: Arthur Bloch“A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.” -Arthur Bloch
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Elizabeth Pena on failure
Author: Elizabeth Pena“When I got Jacob’s Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn’t allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I’d be,’out of there.’” -Elizabeth Pena
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Frederic William Farrar on failure
Author: Frederic William Farrar“There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.” -Frederic William Farrar
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Christie Brinkley on failure
Author: Christie Brinkley“We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn’t handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn’t meant to be.” -Christie Brinkley
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Takeshi Kitano on failure
Author: Takeshi Kitano“My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!” -Takeshi Kitano
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Alvin Adams on failure
Author: Alvin Adams“Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.” -Alvin Adams
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Greg Bear on failure
Author: Greg Bear“Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it’s beautiful, it’s tough, it’s buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It’s covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.” -Greg Bear