684 private quotes tagged failure

“The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.” — Paddy Ashdown

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“I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.” — Toby Young

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“America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.” — Toby Young

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“In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.” — Toby Young

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“Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.” — Jonathan Raban

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“Success is always less funny than failure.” — Jon Ronson

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“Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.” — Stuart Rose

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“His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.” — Oliver Hudson

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“The hippy movement was a failure.” — Joe Strummer

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“There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.” — Marvin Minsky

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“Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.” — Xavier Becerra

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“I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.” — Malcolm Mclaren

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“Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.” — Malcolm Mclaren

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“What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.” — Malcolm Mclaren

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“Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.” — Malcolm Mclaren

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“It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.” — Chris Van Hollen

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“The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.” — Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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“I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.” — Slavoj Zizek

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“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

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“My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.” — Jerry Rice

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“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

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“If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.” — Jamie Moyer

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“A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.” — Robin Tunney

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“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.” — John Mica

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“I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.” — George Hickenlooper

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