Failing Quotes

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries. Hillary Clinton
Government You Honestly Intervene Some Prop Failing Industries Fairly Governments Effectively Up Should Now Compete
Failing to see the point is not a virtue. Howard Jacobson
Virtue See Point Failing
I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little. India Arie
Space Big Too Scared Failing Safe Just Wanted Little Succeeding Grow
When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder. Isabella Rossellini
World Parents Young Difficult Entering Would Risked Could Failing Felt Where Succeeded Much Harder Imagine
The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school. Like other ideologues, libertarians react to the world's failing to conform to their model by asking where the world went wrong. Jacob Weisberg
You World School Worldview Reading Other Immature Rand Say Libertarians Worst Worst Thing High High School About Absorb Wrong Failing Like React Ideologues Intellectually Model Where Frozen Conform Them Asking Many Novels Thing
I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college. Jacqueline Woodson
Family Me People College First Scared Idea Failing First People Because Go Off Any Getting Going Going Away Being Away
I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them. Jamal Lewis
Life Care Made My Life Mistakes Responsible Parent Fact Failing Always Am Provided Children Cannot Them Disputed
I don't think anyone would look at Colombia today and say that it is failing. This positive outcome is an example of the effective application of smart power - it is succeeding. James G. Stavridis
Positive Today Smart Example Power Think Say Would Outcome Colombia Failing Look Effective Anyone Succeeding Application
What I'd like to say is that I think the lives of every one of these little kids who are trapped in these unsafe and failing schools are too important, and I'm willing to take the abuse in order to help them. James R. Leininger
Important Trapped Every Think Too Say Kids Willing Unsafe Take Failing Abuse Like Schools Order Little Them Little Kids Help Who Lives
It's rare that you sit down for an episode of 'Psych' and think, 'Oh, that was just okay.' For the most part, we're either really knocking the ball around, or we're striking out and failing miserably, but you don't ever want to be anywhere in between. James Roday
You Rare Sit Down Think Striking Okay Out Part Failing Between Knocking Most Around Ball Oh Just Want In-Between Either Anywhere Really Episode Ever
Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That is no longer the case. Jerome Powell
Rare Case Uncertain More Failing Longer Were Been May Bank Use Tolerable Early Early 1990s
Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them. Jim Doyle
Kids Allowed Wisconsin Fail Failing Because Just Just Because Them Washington
I'm always looking to the next thing. There are always hurdles, whether it's the White House dinner or hosting charity events or that night's show: Until they're over, I worry, then I move right on to the next thing. It's hard for me to enjoy the moment. I'm just thinking about not failing. Jimmy Kimmel
Me Charity Events Dinner Hurdles Looking White White House Enjoy Thinking Worry About Hosting Failing Over Until House Always Move Just Whether Then Next Hard Next Thing Show Moment Right Thing Night
I think failing the qualifying or the 11-plus actually hurt me more than I realised. After I'd become a professor of physics at the Open University, I suddenly thought, 'This is a bit silly.' So I suddenly became much more open about it. But I think probably I was hurt by the failure and didn't want to talk about it. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Me Failure Hurt Physics Thought Become Think Bit Silly About More Open Failing Talk Qualifying Became Than Want After Realised Much Suddenly Professor Actually University
We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face. Joe Lieberman
Frustration Job Face Meet Resources Those Must Threats Failing Protect Condemn Provide Them Us Whose Necessary
I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools. John Engler
Wish Other Could Detroit Failing Schools Quicker Acted
I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed. John Engler
School Out Able Failing Child Fixed Get Any Just Should Position
We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan. John F. Tierney
Women Safety Men Men And Women Country Defense Our Ensure We Cannot Put Failing Armed Armed Forces Protect Forces Line Continue Off Department Brave Brave Men Afghanistan Cannot While Ask Jeopardize Lives Funds
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. John Yoo
War Legal Obey Protection Lost Claim Responsible Status Wearing Obeying Laws Structure Had POW Failing Taliban Command Conduct Conventions While Uniforms Fighters Standards Initial
I think, as an actor, it is good to feel the fear of failing miserably. I think you should take that risk. Fear is a necessary ingredient in everything I do. But if I do 'Hamlet,' it will probably be in a small theater on a small stage, and it will have to be very, very soon because I'm getting a little long in the tooth for it. Johnny Depp
Good You Fear Will Long Stage Think Tooth Everything Risk Small Take Failing Feel Soon Because Hamlet Very Getting Theater Little Ingredient Should Actor Necessary
In the worst of our recession, bars were making money. Every bar can make money. If they're failing, it's not because of the president or Congress or Ukraine. It's because of them. And if you own failure, then you'll own success. Jon Taffer
Success Failure You Money Own Congress Every Recession President Our Ukraine Worst Failing Make Because Making Making Money Were Bar Them Then Bars
When I meet with people who are ineffective managers with failing businesses, I can't change what they do - I have to change the way they think. Jon Taffer
Change People Think Meet Way Failing Ineffective Managers Who Businesses
Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure. Jon Taffer
Failure Blame People Somebody Else Nine Out Ten Failing Denominator Common Common Denominator Who
We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. 80% of the stuff in the studio is not going to work. If something is not good enough, stop doing it. Jonathan Ive
Work Good Not Good Enough Enough Something Pushing Studio Fail Failing Stuff Doing Going Stop Afraid
The whole banking sector in Mexico was literally bankrupt. For whatever reason, instead of intervening in the sector or supporting the banks, the government expropriated them. We went through the very laborious period of selling the failing banks to the wealthy people of Mexico. Jose Angel Gurria
Government People Whatever Intervening Sector Wealthy Through Instead Failing Supporting Period Mexico Selling Very Laborious Banking Bankrupt Banks Literally Them Reason Whole
One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion. Joshua Ferris
Myself Satisfied One Thing About Failing Feel Like Terrible Conclusion Arrive Discovered Personal Really Traveling Thing
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