Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They’re failing in their mission to provide access.
I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That’s fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
You grow up by making mistakes. I’ve made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don’t mind.
When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up this bittersweet connection to our mortality.
The journey of Robert the Bruce became my journey because the moral of that story – as every schoolchild is taught in Scotland – is he went into this cave and watched a spider trying to spin its web and it kept failing several times, and then it finally succeeded.
I was kind of scared of failing at acting.
After I won Miss India, I realised I do not like failing. I just like being the best. I hate being a loser. So I just have to keep winning.
Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
To take over a bottom club is the best thing that can happen to you as a coach. There’s a significantly higher chance that you can turn things around than failing.
We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.
It’s – everybody’s looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn’t look good on the bottom line, and yet you don’t learn anything without failing.
I’m most scared of failing, of disappointing people.
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear mentor and friend. My second visit to Korphe was in 1994.
I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that’s surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.
From a victim’s point of view, our justice system is hardly fit for purpose. No doubt individual failings by police and prosecutors provide part of the explanation.
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.
You’ve always six teams who are trying to win the title, and the other five have failed. But by word of saying it, it’s not failing; it’s just the way it is. The last two years, we didn’t win it, so it wasn’t good enough, but if now we win it, the other teams will say the same.
Failing is not a sin.
I fail every once in a while, but failing is your first attempt at learning. I’m not worried about it.
Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.
A father who is distracted for a few minutes by his myriad interests and obligations in the world of adult interactions is being, well, a father. A mother who does the same is failing her children.
Motivation levels differ person to person, as does the time since failing new year resolutions.
You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.
I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
We had a lot of close games; we were losing games. Failing in those opportunities – when the game was close? And we needed a bucket or a stop? I wasn’t able to come through. It’s just… something that you get comfortable with as time goes on. You’re OK with failing, as long as you’re trying as hard as you can.
In one of the largest studies ever done on the effects of executive coaching – over 70,000 respondents – we learned that the biggest mistake coaches make is in not following up. It didn’t matter who the coach was or what method they used. Failing to follow up made any approach to coaching ineffective.
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.
Let’s face it: Most of us don’t realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it’s important that your kids see you reading. Not just books – reading the newspaper is good, too.
There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
I cannot hide being sorry for failing to move to Juventus.
The facts are clear. Obamacare is failing the American people.
‘Failing fast’ is an important component of cultivating the agility needed for a development project along with continually rebalancing your innovation portfolio.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Despite claims that there are good and bad cops, we know that the system is failing everyone – including the police.
Whether it’s mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!
The reason why Whitehall is full of people failing in predictable ways on an hourly basis is because, first, there is general system-wide failure and, second, everybody keeps their heads down focused on the particular and they ignore the system.
My generation are the neurotic ones. Therapists’ offices all over the world are full of patients blaming their parents for their own failings.
I was like a hermit; I didn’t really have a lot of homies I would kick it with. I was in high school, I was failing all my classes, and I wanted to make music.
In the political world, big established failing systems control the rules, suck in more and more resources rather than go bust, make it almost impossible for startups to contribute and so on.
I think once I had lived life, once I had failed enough in this lifetime and got back up a thousand times from failing, I really connected to the blues.
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn’t be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
Failing is what we do, or stumbling is what we do on a daily basis.
Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.
By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.
I like movies about failing.
I don’t want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it’s very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.
Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.
We can no longer contemplate a world in which public or private sector funds are used to bail out or recapitalize failing firms.
It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure.
Insult is in the ear of the listener. Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing, moral or otherwise, in yourself.
If you can’t get cell phone service in your living room, then your particular provider is failing you. You should have the option to find a network that does work.
