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We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed. Lech Walesa

Leadership Reclaim Moral Obama Would Hoping Failed Were America

I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success. Michael Feldman

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I'd know that I tried. Michelle Branch

Heart Tried Followed Failed Know Least Figured

India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all. N. R. Narayana Murthy

Future Time Generation Opportunities Independence Responsibility Society Our Corrected Ensure India Civilised Failed Development Failures Since Equal Also Known Same Same Time Happened Create Much Help Many Many Levels Levels

I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission. Patrick Lencioni

Politics Health Leadership Intelligence Confusion Thought Met Meet Members About General Direction Various Failed Mission However Were Domain Expertise Dysfunction Forms Successful Required Organizational Team Riddled Who Companies Many Foster

Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment. Patrisse Cullors

Democracy Rights Experience People Voting Black Long Past Experiment Presidential Fraught Failed Weird Over Voter Like Voting Rights Felt Been Years Tests Times American Poll Literacy Social Taxes Elections

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. Preston Brooks

Good Self-Respect Own Good Opinion My Own Had Failed Countrymen Perhaps Calling Opinion Question Offender Account Personal Should Resent Injury

My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride. Rahul Dravid

Hope Game Dignity Simple Pride Sadness Giving Cricket Approach Everything Has-Been Some Spirit About Never Failed Also Leave Been Times Trying Upholding Done Stopped Team Reasonably Why Playing

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it. Richard Branson

Dyslexic School Old Understanding Would Something Had Failed Schoolwork Years Tests Left Whatsoever Not Interested Interested Certainly Reasons Grasp

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. T. S. Eliot

Some Writers Failed Most Editors

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed. William McKinley

War Peace Every Entered Never Failed Until Agency Should

I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.' Zac Brown

Fatherhood Back Say Failed Look Because Yeah Want Really Successful

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried. Marco Rubio

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, 'trickle-down economics.' That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly. Hillary Clinton

You Old Economics Corporations Tell Has-Been Jobs Tried Rather Failed Know Been Anybody Create Theory Businesses

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions. A. S. Byatt

Mind Own Easy Mental My Own Mental Processes Simply Failed Like Because How Scientist Brain Quite Processes Interested Avoid Works Descriptions

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy. Ai Weiwei

Experience People Joy Speak Believe Spirit Constructed Failed Without Personal Personal Experience So-Called Regard China Games Include Event Olympic

With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europe and problems in the United States because the European situation related primarily to right-hand-drive vehicles. Toyota will increase its outreach to government agencies charged with protecting the safety of motorists and passengers. Akio Toyoda

Government Respect Safety Problems Will Situation Increase Related States Charged Outreach Primarily Vehicles Failed Between Toyota Protecting Accelerator Because Sticking Passengers Government Agencies Dots Agencies Connect Europe European United United States

I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator. Alan Furst

Daily Me Wonderful World Whatever Difficulties Macdonald John About Haunted Something More Take Never Failed Genre Than Where Land Series Away Spectator Raised

Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed. Alex Tabarrok

Work Art Capitalism Conflict Work Hard Too Sold Out Consumers Firm Failed Thus Selling Accused Artist Often Artists Want Succeeded Produce Capitalists Languages Hard Who Even

Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe. Alexander Chee

Truth War Peace Veteran Own Sense Had He Failed Period Wrote Felt Match His Historical Historical Fiction Fiction Literature Meant Internal Wars Describe Tolstoy

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