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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
Charles Caleb Colton
Man
Pride
Our
Object
Betrays
Rather
Wins
He
Observe
Fail
Supports
Know
How
Loses
His
Than
Succeed
Us
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
Charles Horton Cooley
Government
Freedom
Other
Churches
Reconstruction
Properly
Wrong
Fail
Perform
Like
Institutions
Industries
Than
Contribute
Human
Far
Human Freedom
Whole
Function
Need
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.
Charles Kettering
Work
Will
Job
Experiment
Say
He
Fail
Failing
Over
Employee
Until
Learns
Hired
Trying
Often
Biggest
Again
Newly
Teach
Keep
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
Charles Kettering
Time
You
Try
Only
Only Time
Fail
Last
Last Time
I never don't know my lines. I never take the audition pages into the room. I end up relying on them or looking at them too much, and it makes me feel unprepared, so I always learn my lines without fail.
Charlie Cox
Me
Too Much
Looking
Too
Unprepared
Relying
Take
Never
Fail
Feel
Never Take
Know
Learn
Without
Makes
Always
Audition
Lines
End
Up
Room
Them
Much
Pages
My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.
Chet Faker
Time
Me
You
Enemy
Made
First
Everything
Head
Fail
Longest
Longest Time
Became
Because
Hear
Anxious
Stories
Biggest
Successful
Many
If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.
Chris Christie
Will
Tough
First
Become
Year
Fall
States
Further
Percent
Economic
Tough Decisions
Economic Growth
Fail
Make
Going
Behind
Decisions
Race
Act
Even
Now
Growth
I say to people all the time, it is OK to fail. Some of the greatest successes in the history of America started out as failures.
Chris Gardner
Time
History
People
Say
OK
Out
Some
Fail
Failures
Greatest
America
The History Of
Successes
Started
Sometimes we get bored and want to shake up our format. It's a luxury we have on public access - no one cares about us. It literally doesn't matter if we fail, so sometimes we try to go really big and out of the box.
Chris Gethard
Sometimes
Matter
Try
Luxury
Big
Cares
Our
Out
Bored
About
Shake
No One Cares
No-One
Fail
Box
Access
Go
Up
Get
Want
Literally
Format
Public
Public Access
Us
Really
I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.
Chris Gethard
Try
Think
Fail
Stuff
Permission
Comics
Go
Up
Need
Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.
Chris Pine
People
Money
Hoping
More
More People
Generally
Fail
Involved
Expecting
Going
Anything
Speaking
The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
Chris Pine
Time
Great
You
Before
About
Net
Seems
Fail
Great Thing
Up
So Much Time
Theater
Public
Much
Act
Less
Farther
Prepare
Film
Thing
Presenting
When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.
Chris Smith
Silence
Fear
Political
Sense
Approval
Only
Void
Fail
Leaders
Particular
Wrongdoing
Vulnerability
Enables
Climate
Least
Demoralizing
Anti-Semitic
Denounce
Political Leaders
Contribute
Officials
Victims
Elected
Elected Officials
Actually
Violence
The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.
Christen Press
Time
Pushing
Fail
Same
Same Time
The Hardest Thing
Keep
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?
Christian Bale
People
Responsibility
Would
Someone
Something
Bother
Fail
Like
Look
Go
Person
Trying
Want
Movie
Movie Star
Interested
Even
Star
Why
Desire
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
Christopher Hampton
You
Husband
Think
Humiliating
Degrading
About
Something
Having
Rival
Fail
Commonplace
Succeed
Too often, politicians fail to relate what they advocate to the kind of society they want to build, or they dress up policy in rhetoric which belies their actual intention. Meanwhile Joe Public is left wondering what on earth this bunch are all about and how their vision of a good society differs from that of the other lot.
Chuka Umunna
Good
Vision
Build
Politicians
Society
Too
Other
Relate
Earth
Kind
Joe
Dress
Dress-Up
About
Fail
Policy
Advocate
How
Lot
Left
Up
Bunch
Wondering
Often
Intention
Want
Rhetoric
Which
Public
Meanwhile
Actual
Differs
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.
Clara Schumann
Me
Memory
Fear
Single
Other
Threatens
Give
Fail
Days
Piece
Concert
Because
Terror
Beforehand
After
Cannot
Which
Agony
Play
You cannot leave the pressure and responsibility on young people in general. Young people must enter a safe and protected environment to be able to pass and fail so, little by little, they can adapt.
Clarence Seedorf
You
People
Pressure
Responsibility
Young
Enter
Must
Able
General
Environment
Fail
Safe
Protected
Pass
Leave
Cannot
Young People
Little
Adapt
I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
Clayton M. Christensen
Me
Smart
Big
Harvard
Brought
Fail
Question
Big Question
Companies
Why
The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.
Clayton M. Christensen
Book
Innovator
Dilemma
Paradox
Wrong
Fail
Making
Situations
Decisions
Successful
Explored
Companies
Right
Right Decisions
I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
Cliff Richard
God
Time
You
Will
Christian
Immediately
Be Prepared
Fail
Because
Close
Walking
Celebrity
Artist
May
Want
Gain
Public
Mean
Prepared
Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.
Colin Baker
Somewhere
Lose
Secret
Unless
Weight
Fail
Nobody
Got
Jungle
Pork
The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.
Connie Britton
You
Risks
Taking Risks
Pretend
About
Risk
Only
Fail
Taking
Really
Thing
Everyone's going to fail at some point. Even if you choose the steadiest career, you're going to go through that.
Constance Wu
You
Everyone
Some
Point
Through
Fail
Go
Going
Choose
Even
Career
If I fail to remove Marcos and vindicate the people's verdict by peaceful, nonviolent action, my methods will be discredited. And if anger persists, I will be marginalized, and others will take over leadership of the movement.
Corazon Aquino
Leadership
Anger
People
Will
Remove
Action
Others
Take
Fail
Over
Verdict
Nonviolent
Methods
Persists
Movement
Peaceful
Vindicate
Marginalized
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