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Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.
Johann Johannsson
Work
Time
Try
Will
Past
Experiment
Out
Composer
Temptation
Give
Fail
Reach
Ideas
Know
Also
Stock
Very
In The Past
Little
Worked
Little Time
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Word
Situation
Fail
Ideas
Just
Save
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Words
Fail
Come
Ideas
Very
Handy
You need the willingness to fail all the time.
John Backus
Time
You
Willingness
Fail
Need
You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.
John Cassavetes
You
Too Much
Films
Too
Humility
Something
Fail
Talent
Because
Grab
Lack
Want
Much
Gangster
We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.
John Catsimatidis
Our
Kids
Fail
Succeed
Teach
Teaching
Need
I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.
John Cleese
You
Try
Somebody
Somewhere
Sense
Think
Else
Small
Somewhere Else
Fail
Because
Always
Go
Up
America
Get
Just
Again
Pack
Succeeding
Succeeds
Your
England
Things
Here
Chances
One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.
John Glenn
You
Marine Corps
First
Military
Define
Corps
Defined
Possibly
Fail
Mission
Force
Learned
First Things
Without
Equipment
Accomplish
Precisely
Any
Size
Then
Things
Marine
It's OK to fail once in awhile.
John Gourley
Once
OK
Fail
Awhile
Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.
John Hodgman
Time
You
Try
Internet
Worst
Worst Thing
Meme
Fail
Like
Any
Automatic
Create
Thing
The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly.
John Hunt Morgan
Government
Home
Enemies
Will
Guards
Once
Those
Deliver
Fail
Come
Arms
Up
Accordingly
Regarded
Required
Who
Treated
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
John James Audubon
Sad
Life
Success
Good
Family
Three
My Life
Own
Hundred
Abandon
Must
See
My Own
Never
Fail
Names
Perhaps
Institutions
Undergo
Well
Although
America
Substantial
Cannot
Again
Procure
Persons
Bodies
Many
Beloved
As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.
John Legend
Day
Me
You
Respect
Every Day
People
Situation
Politician
Every
Think
Out
See
Someone
Generally
Fail
Deal
Stomach
Being
Where
Wanting
Prefer
Rooting
Who
Downfall
Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those.
John Mackey
Service
Good
Food
Experience
Those
High-Quality
Deliver
Fail
Most
Store
Want
Customers
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
John Malkovich
Myself
Grateful
One Thing
Some
Given
Fail
Learn
Still
Permitted
The One Thing
Regularity
Thing
I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.
John Malkovich
Hate
See
Fail
Involved
Also
Any
Film
If I had my career to do over again, I think I would wrestle under my real name, John Hennigan, because if there was some sort of brand test associated with professional wrestling, I would hardcore fail that test because I have so many names, it's confusing to me, even.
John Morrison
Me
Think
Would
John
Some
Wrestle
Wrestling
Had
Fail
Over
Name
Names
Sort
Because
Real
Test
Brand
Real Name
Again
Confusing
Many
Professional
Even
Hardcore
Career
Associated
Wrestling promotions are kind of like new religions - nine out of 10 fail in the first year.
John Morrison
First
Year
Nine
Out
Kind
Religions
Promotions
Wrestling
Fail
New
Like
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.
John Perkins
Buy
Men
Arabia
Tried
Hussein
Scenario
Economic
Step
Fail
Implement
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Call
Policy
Iraq
Hit
Same
Successful
Next
Next Step
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
John Podhoretz
Saying
Simple
Big
Become
Too
States
Obama
Fail
United
United States
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
John Roberts
Good
People
Own
Society
Would
Would-Be
Fail
Often
Them
Reasons
Things
I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.
John Stossel
Government
Problem
Better
Will
Before
Saw
Intuitively
Consumer
Had
Fail
Reaction
Make
Because
Doing
Years
Reporting
Really
Watch
Bring
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
John Wesley Powell
Art
Language
Illustration
Resources
Adequately
Must
Features
Attempting
Fail
Combined
Beyond
Powers
Nor
Itself
Wonders
Cannot
Grand
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Taxed
Graphic
Portray
Symbols
Speech
For the longest time, I was horrified to hear the word 'failure,' but I've come to realize that we all fail. It's just a part of life. We all fall. It's how you rebound that shows the type of person you are.
Johnny Gargano
Life
Time
Failure
You
Word
Fall
Type
Horrified
Part
Fail
Longest
Longest Time
Come
How
Hear
Person
Just
Realize
Shows
Rebound
I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.
Jon Favreau
Own
Out
Would
My Own
Rather
Fail
Call
Because
Always
Than
Wanted
Shots
Figure
Chance
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
Jon Meacham
Great
Reality
Comforting
Wonderful
Complicated
Caricatures
Corporations
Sector
Would
Would-Be
More
Fail
Terrible
Always
Private
Were
Governments
Private Sector
Than
Public
Public Sector
Alas
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