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A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.
The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
You do not fail in life, you only produce results, and you have the right to learn and grow from any results that you produce.
Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.
The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.
The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.
It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.
If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.
We can no longer contemplate a world in which public or private sector funds are used to bail out or recapitalize failing firms.
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.
Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.
Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.
When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.
Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
I believe if we only are talking to people who agree with us, we are failing in some way to understand our world and our country.
Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.
The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?
I believe we can look forward to a more prosperous, more secure, and brighter future if we vote to leave the failing E.U. project.
If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.
I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature of oneself.
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.
I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.
The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.
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.
Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.
Failing is part of my process. A new bit never works the first time. I figure I have to bomb 7 times to make it good. So I tweak it.
I used to think that my business mirrored my climbing - if I wasn't failing at something, I just wasn't trying anything hard enough.
In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.
In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn't work, you say okay, we've learned that that's not a path to go down.
If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.