733 Fail Quotes for You to Enjoy

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. Fareed Zakaria

Life Promises Thomas Once Threats Scholar Fail Very Expensive Succeed Noted International Things Two

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself. Ferdinand Porsche

Fail Himself Does Times Then Challenged

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. Ferdinand de Saussure

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! Francis Ford Coppola

Life Better My Life Think Way Fail Failed Overly Been Ambitious Very Than Upward Succeed Fortunate Mundane

The one who intimidates me is myself. I'm scared to fail. That is the thing that makes me the most afraid, to fail. Just to think that I can do a mistake and lose the fight scares me, so that is why I work out a lot: to bring more chance to my size and less chance to my opponent. Francis Ngannou

Work Myself Me Fight Mistake Lose Think Out Scared Scares More Fail Most Makes Opponent Lot Just Afraid Size Work Out Less Who Why Thing Bring Chance

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail. Francois Hollande

Tired People Wild Constant Fail Improvisation Movement Plans

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail. Frank Sinatra

Respect Song Word Every Project Throughout Fail Attention Sing Done Listener Anything Cannot Note Paid Career

It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail. Frans de Waal

You Together Cats Water Try Behavior Will Animals Pay Other Out Similar Fail Attention Simultaneously Spontaneously Make Because Dolphins Domestic Jump Normally Get Precisely Which Little Little Attention Teach Hard Show Each Things Two

As with early internet startups, some token models don't make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes and 100 failures, so we shouldn't be surprised when some fail. Fred Ehrsam

Internet Will Sense Every Startups Minor Some Fail Failures Make Surprised Huge Hit Models Successes Token Early

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. Freeman Dyson

Job Marketplace Fail Practical Judges Effectiveness Whether Succeed Designed Technologies

Plan B is a plan to fail. You should always give 110% to what you plan to do for plan A. Freya Tingley

You Give Fail Always Plan Should

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be. Gary Hamel

Could Fail Expense Businesses

It's interesting - in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me. Gary Ross

Me Films Back Those Kind Haunted Fail Armageddon Safe Well Sort Were Off Interesting Lived Raised Spectrum

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. Gavin Bryars

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