... though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.
Failure Quotes (1508 Quotes)
Live in the present. The past is gone the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.
To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing it is the purity and beauty of a failure.
It was the failure of the non-discrimination clause. Other Catholic institutions, like Holy Cross, Notre Dame, and Georgetown, have much better clauses. It has nothing to do with our being Catholic it has to do with intolerance.
I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
The Bank of England has to be careful that any Y2K-related problems don't lead to a systemic failure. It is only prudent to take such precautions, I am sure that other central banks will be doing the same.
Kids in our urban schools, most of them minorities, are not succeeding at anywhere near the rate of their counterparts in the suburbs. And let me be clear the failure of our urban schools to prepare our children today for the challenges of tomorrow is the civil rights issue of our generation.
We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
The most damaging bills were defeated. One bill that would have allowed any communication between elected officials to become private was taken out. It required a lot of work among the news media and public interest groups to stop this and all the work paid off.
The person who succeeds is not the one who holds back, fearing failure, nor the one who never fails... but rather the one who moves on im spite of failure. Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. Author Teddy Roosevelt.
When considering all the reasons for missed shots or lost birds, failure to accurately judge the distance to a target is probably the most common. A hunter must be able to determine when a turkey is close enough to make a clean kill. Just like patterning your shotgun prior to the season, you should also practice judging distance.
In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.
I am delighted. I think the failure of the injunction is good news for today and for the future. Of course, the only bad news today is casino workers who aren't covered.
It's unlikely. From what was said the day he died, that he was found lifeless, it looked very much like a very sudden death from heart failure.
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.
Apparently, Governor Schwarzenegger has ripped a page from President Bush's re-election playbook, ... Rule number one in the 'Bush-Rove Guide to Running on a Record of Failure' is to demonize groups of people and use them to divide the electorate by rallying the extremists in your base. It's the only way to explain Governor Schwarzenegger's promise to veto the California marriage equality bill after pledging just last year to support equal rights and responsibilities for California's LGBT families if approved by the courts or the legislature.
It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success they often succeed through failures.
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
It's a classic market failure.
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
I'm aware of the priceless privilege of having been born into the theater. Although it was a career I rejected at first, the profession has given me an incredibly varied life and more than my fair share of success, failure, love, laughter and despair. I've not a single regret for any of it.
The job FEMA has done is terrible. I would give it a failing grade.
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
the voice I was hearing was like nothing I had ever heard before He was completely defeated, without any sense of hope. It was almost like a 911 call. I wanted to concentrate on what he was saying.
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
This commission cannot and will not tolerate a pattern of growing restatements, audit failures, corporate failures and massive investor losses, ... Somehow we have got to put a stop to the vicious cycle that has now been in evidence for far too many years.
If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.
If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated.
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
Yes, I am a Republican, and yes, I am asking for your vote, ... The fact is, you haven't heard many people in my party stand before you and ask you for your vote. That represents a failure of our democracy and the state of our party.
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words 'I did not have time.'
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Without a doubt this has been a failure of both individuals and institutions,
December is an anomaly. We had an array of trouble. We had contractor problems, where contractors weren't able to clear the tracks in time for rush hour. We had a broken rail, missing third-rail shoes, locomotive engine failures, and then we had the (New York City transit) strike in December. That affected all the lines because of slower boarding and congestions. We had trains stacked.
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
The service that may be offered to the faithful and non-Christian spouses who are going through difficulties would be misleading if one encouraged in them, even if only implicitly, the tendency to forget the indissolubility of the union itself. In this way, the possible intervention of the ecclesiastical institution in the causes of annulment would run the risk of becoming a simple proof of a failure.
I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
At this time, we haven't fully understood the failure mechanisms at all of these locations.
Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significant in what is only trivial or ephemeral. A simple instance of failing in this is provided by the poll-man at Cambridge, who learned perfectly how to factorize a2 - b2 but was floored because the examiner unkindly asked for the factors of p2 - q2.