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It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.
George Matthew Adams
Alone
Failure
Win
Winner
Walks
Everybody
Sides
Easier
Fail
Than
Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.
George Michael
Work
Failure
People
Regret
Control
Control Freak
Freak
Suppose
Terribly
Meticulous
Very
Just
Afraid
Really
Hard
Many
Things
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bush
Success
Hope
Failure
Ambition
Hopeful
More
Know
Likely
Obviously
Opposed
Lot
Ambitious
Succeed
Realize
Washington
I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.
Gerry Beckley
Time
Failure
People
Three
First
Sold
Considered
Ten
Shame
Dropped
Name
Names
Know
First Time
Sells
Going
Really
Acts
Million
Copies
Second
Album
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein
Failure
Excuse
Does
Real
End
Itself
Need
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
Gifford Pinchot
Day
Failure
Progress
Prosperity
Will
Practice
Pay
Our
Unless
Those
Degradation
Misery
Price
Come
After
Us
Who
Conservation
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
Gloria Swanson
Failure
You
Old
Never
Had
Been
Years
Deprived
I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Hope
Best
Great
Thoughts
Failure
You
Women
Goals
Try
Achieve
Will
Way
Everywhere
Best Way
Rise
Potential
Simply
Nag
Feel
Invite
Reach
Beyond
Know
Within
Capacity
Far
Ask
Your
Set
I don't think the failure of one film means the end of your career.
Govinda
Failure
Think
End
Means
Your
Film
Career
I am not worried about failure. I have made my career in this industry, so it does not scare me.
Govinda
Me
Failure
Made
Worried
Scare
About
Industry
Does
Am
Career
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
Graham Greene
Success
Failure
Dangerous
Ripples
More
Over
Than
Break
Success Is
Coastline
Wider
Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.
Greg Bear
Sad
Love
Beautiful
Failure
Memories
Tough
Our
Mars
Nerds
Triumphs
Mythic
Also
Because
Covered
Childhood
Human
Childhood Memories
Buried
Stories
Much
Why
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
Guy Kawasaki
Good
Failure
Magnificent
Good Thing
Ambitious
Very
Thing
The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.
H. R. McMaster
Failure
Risks
Fight
Communicate
Strategy
Resources
Those
Worthy
Percentage
Only
Small
Daughters
Sacrifices
Sons
Effectively
Efforts
May
Sustain
Explain
Stake
Sent
Derive
Who
Professed
Wars
Why
Among
Necessary
Recent
This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
Hamish Bowles
Mom
Crazy
Failure
Game
Heart
Father
Parents
Sister
Our
Saw
Top
Out
Would
Driving
Leap
How
Halt
Go
Were
Antique
Junk
Shop
Shops
Scream
Where
Poor
Explore
Play
Lungs
Started
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
Hans Eysenck
Failure
Together
Patient
Our
Those
Finish
Results
Fails
Surely
His
Improved
Stopped
Psychoanalytic
Therapeutic
Reasonable
Who
Appears
Treatment
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
Hart Crane
Failure
Long
Suitable
Other
Lyric
Sections
Folk
Poem
Fact
Contains
Material
Prove
Lore
Form
Epic
Therefore
Bridge
Interrelated
Need
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
Harvey Fierstein
Character
Failure
You
Song
Made
Other
Torch
Some
Colors
Had
Almost
Until
React
Also
Non-Stop
How
Doing
Did
Movie
Which
Then
Things
You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good.
Heidi Roizen
Good
Failure
You
Down
Stay
Fail
Because
Going
After
Keep
I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.
Helen Garner
Great
Failure
Obligation
Invent
About
Something
More
Feel
Massive
Because
Felt
Australia
Any
Just
Used
Novels
Things
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.
Henry B. Eyring
Happiness
God
Failure
People
Enemy
Obey
Cause
Poverty
Starvation
Birth
Earth
Would
Only
Could
Unto
Well
Human
Children
Them
Human Happiness
Themselves
Ask
Then
Agents
Teach
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
Henry Paulson
Failure
Financial
Discipline
Market
System
Financial System
Must
Would
Threaten
Constrain
Risk
Allowed
Fail
Overall
Institutions
Effectively
Optimal
Regulatory
An AIG failure would have been devastating to the financial system and to the economy.
Henry Paulson
Failure
Financial
System
Financial System
Would
Devastating
Economy
Been
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
Henry Petroski
Failure
Engineer
Made
Design
Every
Recite
Vocabulary
Case
Something
Studies
He
Part
He Or She
Wrong
Study
New
She
Process
Them
Should
Recall
Suggestive
The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.
Henry Petroski
Future
Failure
Past
Down
Ways
Paradox
More
Potential
Take
Failures
New
Inviting
Likely
Occur
Line
Anticipate
Account
Model
New Ways
Which
Produce
Successes
Successful
Designs
Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.
Henry Spencer
Failure
Progress
Try
Way
Only
Sure
Sure Way
Requires
Avoid
Setbacks
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