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It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.
George Lindsey
Find
Takes
Stuff
Failures
Right
Million
If a woman is successful, then she's deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we're all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn't seem to me to have changed an iota.
Glenda Jackson
Me
Woman
Gender
Changed
Approach
Our
Rule
Kind
Seem
Exception
Fails
Failures
She
Well
Underlying
Iota
Proves
Then
Successful
Deemed
The content of your character will come from how you respond to your failures.
Grace Helbig
Character
You
Will
Respond
Failures
Come
Content
How
Your
Once I turned 40, I stopped giving a rip about my detractors, the people who say nasty things. It's more candid and honest than it would have been. I share my failures, which is important.
Gretchen Carlson
People
Giving
Important
Once
Say
Would
Rip
About
More
Share
Failures
Nasty
Been
Than
Candid
Stopped
Which
Turned
Who
Things
Honest
I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.
Gwen Moore
Government
Benefits
Welfare
Safety
Believe
Thinking
Recipient
Once
Way
Those
Critical
Would
Net
Lazy
Failures
Another
Safety Net
Around
Another Way
Am
Very
Sitting
Just
Us
Successes
Who
Aware
Receiving
Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
Ha-Joon Chang
Money
Financial
Lost
Few
Top
Those
Punished
Out
Jobs
Run
Pension
Had
Failures
Industrial
Mostly
Been
Yes
Very
Handsome
Managers
Public
Payment
Who
Companies
Many
Fat
Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.
Harold Prince
You
Remember
Despite
Rather
Failures
Lovingly
Successes
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.
Harvey Mackay
Life
You
Business
Will
Personal Life
Easier
Direction
Both
Fact
Headed
Sooner
Failures
Accept
Get
Personal
Successes
Your
Right
Right Direction
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
Harvey Mackay
You
Sometimes
Try
Mistakes
Approaches
Some
Colossal
Lead
Failures
New
Make
Expect
Different
Successes
Spectacular
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis
Success
Better
Our
Failures
New
Different
Base
I think women let themselves be burdened by failures much more than men do. They agonize - and I do it a lot, too - and rethink them.
Heidi Roizen
Women
Men
Think
Too
More
Rethink
Failures
Lot
Than
Burdened
Them
Themselves
Much
Agonize
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.
Henry Petroski
Myself
Me
Book
Engineer
First
Accidents
Fall
Down
Easy
Prompted
Had
Knew
Failures
Answer
Buildings
Doing
Were
Question
Friends
Did
Often
Human
Asked
Asking
Engineers
Many
Bridges
Why
Technological
Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular crashes, which we tend to find more interesting than cars just racing around the track. The same is true of bridges, buildings, or any structure or machine.
Henry Petroski
People
Car
Think
Drama
Dramatic
Machine
Draw
Find
Structure
More
Crowds
Tend
True
Failures
Like
Track
Around
Buildings
Expect
Than
Same
Any
Just
Automobile
Crashes
Which
Interesting
Races
Much
Racing
Successes
Bridges
Why
Spectacular
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
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.
Hugh Evans
Vote
Political
Poverty
Past
Politicians
Lobbyists
London
Failures
Global
Parties
Make
Policy
Hire
Political Parties
American
Canberra
Donations
Poor
Poorest
Elections
Product
European
Present
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Humphry Davy
Me
Failure
Important
Failures
Most
Been
Discoveries
The Most Important
Suggested
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
Iain Duncan Smith
Future
Faith
Values
Past
Conservatism
Conservatives
Our
Those
Lies
Throwing
Failures
Make
Shed
Hold
Them
Us
Beliefs
Bind
Away
Things
Need
Associations
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
J. William Fulbright
Our
Indeed
Menace
Failures
Excuses
Because
Greatest
Been
Provided
Soviet
Done
Soviet Union
Us
Much
Union
Acting is definitely an incredible pursuit, but on the other side, it's a business, and learning where art meets business was a huge lesson for me. The more you can wrap your mind around that idea - that yes, this is my art, but it's tied into business - the more it helps you understand and move past the failures.
James Wolk
Art
Me
You
Business
Learning
Mind
Past
Lesson
Other
Incredible
Side
Meets
Definitely
Wrap
More
Pursuit
Idea
Failures
Tied
Around
Understand
Huge
Yes
Move
Where
Acting
Your
Helps
In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it's a new normal. It's just not true: We've had multiple wars; we're not educating our kids. We had government shut downs, badly-spent money, failures in the health system, failures and an extreme amount of regulation - that's why we're going slow.
Jamie Dimon
Government
Health
You
Money
Secular
Slow
Our
Extreme
Kids
System
Had
True
Failures
New
Educating
Hearing
Normal
America
Going
Just
Stagnation
Low
Productivity
Regulation
Wars
Multiple
Downs
Keep
Why
Amount
Shut
The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.
Jason Kander
Single
Military
President
Charge
Responsible
Individual
Failures
Single Individual
Accountable
American
Successes
American failures in Vietnam and Iraq suggest that it's not really possible to create and sustain a proxy government in a country far from our own borders.
Jay Parini
Government
Country
Own
Our
Possible
Borders
Failures
Iraq
American
Sustain
Far
Create
Really
Vietnam
Suggest
The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.
Jen Lancaster
Balance
Resting
First
Believe
Carpet
Tried
More
Had
Failures
Were
Fit
Jumping
Than
Shoddy
Board
Ski
Games
Thick
Spectacular
Here
Michael Dyson is popular amongst most blacks because he uses his pedestal as an 'educated' man to justify blacks' rage and hatred and never demands that blacks take responsibility for themselves and their own failures and character flaws.
Jesse Lee Peterson
Character
Man
Responsibility
Hatred
Own
Rage
Pedestal
Blacks
Take
Never
He
Failures
Demands
Most
Because
Educated
His
Michael
Justify
Flaws
Themselves
Uses
Popular
Amongst
I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.
John Piper
Life
God
Father
Husband
My Life
Other
Possible
Tried
About
Join
Failures
Name
Devote
Him
Sure
Passionate
Yearning
Friend
Pastor
Any
Done
Them
Aspiring
Activity
It's sobering to think of the seventeen chief justices; certainly a solid majority of them have to be characterized as failures. The successful ones are hard to number.
John Roberts
Think
Seventeen
Solid
Characterized
Failures
Majority
Chief
Justices
Sobering
Them
Successful
Hard
Certainly
Number
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