If you can’t compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.
My biggest fear, the only fear that I have is failing. I hate to fail at anything that I do and that’s really my only fear in life, to be a failure.
Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what’s particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall.
Most people don’t really do too many things because they’re afraid they’ll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring.
I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don’t even like being around negative talkers.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
The fear of failing… not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.
Usually, if you notice good cinematography, then the cinematographer’s failing. I try to make light feel like it’s always motivated and natural in some way and hope that the lighting goes unnoticed.
My family had seen that I was not putting enough heart and soul into studies. I started failing too, but they were sure that I will eventually end up doing a job.
I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school, and had she not, I would probably be in a gang or dead right now, because that was the road I was going down.
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
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.
I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
I don’t like failing at anything.
I like winning or losing, failing or succeeding on my own merit.
I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we’ve had about 50 years’ experience at failing with foreign aid.
One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don’t like traveling. I feel like it’s a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the ‘ledger.’
When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.
Tennis is failing to renew its fanbase. And that’s very worrying, because the future doesn’t look bright.
Jews are frequently compared to the proverbial ‘canary in the coal mine,’ an enduring signal for when the world is failing to meet its obligations in tackling bigotry. It has never been clearer to me just how widely understood that truism is.
The most important obligation our government has is to protect American citizens, and for decades career politicians like Joe Donnelly in Washington have neglected their duty by failing to stop illegal immigration and the flow of drugs pouring across our weak border.
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
In college, I was failing almost every class I was taking my freshman year. I was having difficulty in managing my time; I was just overwhelmed. Even though I knew I was smart and knew I was good enough, at that point, I doubted all of it because I struggled to handle my sport, classes and social life all at once.
The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings – otherwise what’s the point of using him? But as I’m writing him, he’s younger and has perhaps been through a bit less than the battered, aging old sod we meet in Vertigo.
I try to keep it really real on my social media, whether it’s me training or working out, whether it’s me practicing or failing at something.
We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.
Failing to see the point is not a virtue.
Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
I love to compete and I hate failing.
Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.
I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.
You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means – We’re burying generations under a mountain range of debt.
Certainly, with my giant overinflated ego, playing in the CFL would have been like failing.
Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man’s failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.
My failings are the result of my own inter-personal abilities. I am not a good husband or boyfriend.
We’ve outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they’re failing us.
Leadership is failing. And Donald Trump is going to take a holistic approach to how we focus on these things, and he’s not going to allow disparate activities in the communities to define everything.
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation’s history, the President’s policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Mr Corbyn, I accuse you of failing to do your duty by not opposing in any real sense our government on the most important issue of our times – Brexit.
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August ’71.
If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me – drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.
The thing about stand-ups is you can’t really get good unless you’re failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can’t do anything.
The media is really failing the American people.
A failing social care system will have long-lasting repercussions for all, but it is women who are likely to be worst hit.
SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.
Millennials are exceptionally independent and innovative. Striking out on your own and failing a few times is de rigueur, while going to work for a company on the expectation that you’ll build a 30-year career there is unheard of.
Most students of Kissinger find it hard to say anything about Kissinger that isn’t about the man himself. He is such an outsize figure that he eclipses his own context, leading his many biographers, critics, and admirers to focus nearly exclusively on the quirks of his personality or his moral failings.
You can’t just put a bubble over the Westside of L.A. and pretend like there aren’t other problems. The way that we are failing the kids in this city through our education system has a profound effect on everybody in the city, and I’m not prepared just to turn a blind eye to that.
