Failing Quotes

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.

The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.