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In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.
Sheryl Sandberg
Time
Year
Every
Every Time
Fact
Fail
New
Years
Get
In Fact
Two
Resolution
Jewish
Meditate
I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.
Shinya Yamanaka
Freedom
Science
Research
Has-Been
Plus
Fail
Like
Know
Policy
Because
Insurance
Always
Been
Survive
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.
Sidney Altman
Old
Impress
General
Could
Mystique
Fail
Importance
Scientists
Role
Even
Bomb
Played
Associated
I got an automatic breadmaker. It's the greatest! I get more points for that. You computerize in the results you want, and it's no fail. I'm a modern homemaker.
Sissy Spacek
You
More
Results
Points
Fail
Greatest
Got
Get
Modern
Want
Automatic
Homemaker
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.
Sonia Sotomayor
Me
Failure
You
Will
Hurts
Past
Down
Live
Way
Say
Kind
Fail
Know
Sting
Stings
Undoubtedly
Get
Any
Getting
Going
Just
When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.
Sophie Hannah
Tries
Writer
Fail
Another
Doomed
Copy
We could do good things in Afghanistan for the next 100 years and fail.
Stanley A. McChrystal
Good
Good Things
Could
Fail
Years
Afghanistan
Next
Things
Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime.
Stanley Hauerwas
Faith
Natural
People
Gifts
Athlete
Lifetime
Develop
Fades
Fail
Talent
Sport
May
Just
Sustain
After
Them
Skills
Naturally
Fundamental
Play
Necessary
People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'
Stephanie Ruhle
People
Say
Tells
See
Superstars
Fail
Like
Economy
Stop
Them
Media
Believing
Things
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
Stephen Covey
Education
Good
School
Jobs
Degrees
General
Fail
Tests
Get
Grades
Cram
Want
Procrastinate
Then
Us
Successfully
Many
Even
Need
To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.
Stephen Frears
You
Fail
Occasionally
Just
Anything
Successful
Right
Need
Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.
Stephen Kinzer
Rarely
Claws
Prey
Catch
Fail
Powerful
Quickly
Breaking
Eagles
Neck
I felt like it was inevitable that I was going to fail in life and die young. So I was frantically scrambling to document my stunts and pack my message into a bottle. I thought maybe I could be discovered after I'd died, like Van Gogh.
Steve-O
Life
Thought
Inevitable
Young
Van
Van Gogh
Could
Bottle
Fail
Like
Document
Stunts
Message
Felt
Discovered
Die
Died
Gogh
Going
Maybe
After
Pack
Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching him fail from lack of nerve is tragic.
Steve Blank
Sad
Entrepreneur
Nerve
Fail
Him
Tragic
Lack
Watching
I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.
Steve Carell
Funny
Myself
Humor
Think
Would
Fail
Comedian
Up
Room
Fill
I do think there are more and more entrepreneurs all the time that think big. Those are the people we should be finding and funding. Most of them will fail, but the ones who succeed will change the world, and that is progress.
Steve Jurvetson
Time
Change
People
World
Progress
Will
Big
Think
Change The World
Those
Finding
More
More And More
Entrepreneurs
Fail
Most
Succeed
Them
Should
Who
Think Big
Funding
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
Steven Brust
You
People
Cause
Organ
Earth
Ways
Vital
Poisons
Fail
Failures
Die
Which
Sea
Each
Millions
Number
I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.
Steven Sinofsky
Good
You
Management
Practice
Down
Enough
Fail
Reminds
Like
Cliche
Because
Forget
Often
Much
Boils
Things
Need
I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.
Stieg Larsson
Writing
Police
Innocent
Too Much
Will
Too
Everybody
Kind
Threatened
Threats
Fail
Come
Most
Call
Occasionally
Without
Been
Texts
Gets
Happen
Happens
Might
Much
Who
Things
I fail to see how anything can still be weird in 2016.
Sturgill Simpson
See
Fail
Weird
How
Still
Anything
I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
T. Boone Pickens
Government
Control
Believe
Price
Fail
Because
Going
Carbon
If my films fail, I will work on something else; my life will not end. And the film is not the end-all of my life.
Taapsee Pannu
Life
Work
Will
My Life
Films
Else
Something
Something Else
Fail
End
End-All
Film
When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.
Tablo
You
Independent
Responsible
Responsibly
Totally
Fail
Make
Go
Succeed
Who
I like Hyderabad Biriyani, and when I go to Hyderabad, I have biriyani without fail in the hotels.
Tamannaah
Fail
Hotels
Like
Without
Go
Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
Tariq Ramadan
Daily
Commitment
Will
Citizen
Down
Every
Society
Pluralistic
Fail
Understand
Terror
Personal
Crash
Us
Requires
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
Ted Engstrom
Learning
Benefits
Mistakes
Must
Posture
Determined
Fail
Learned
Repeat
Expect
Maximize
Process
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