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I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
A lot of actors do that - they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
The failure of 'Naach' shook me badly. I have never really been upset about any film doing badly. But 'Naach' was something else.
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches ... you are the same.
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated
Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.
What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.
American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave.
Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!
I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.
Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.