After my experiences with the 5:2 diet, I wasn’t interested in a short-term fix that would fail later. I wanted a way of eating that made me lose weight without feeling deprived.
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn’t matter much else what they find.
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow – and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
I’ve been interested in the idea of forgiveness and the necessity of it. I think of it as the most critical piece of any relationship, whether that be business, or romantic, or familial. We fail each other. We make mistakes. If we contract to go on after those mistakes, forgiveness is involved. Forgiveness is required.
I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.
Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father’s power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
It’s embarrassing that we’re in the 21st century and we don’t even know what makes gravity work. I’m getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.
Don’t be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don’t be afraid to fail, because you’re going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you’re always going to get up and you’re going to learn something from it.
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
I’ve never been afraid to fail.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.
When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it’s written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can’t do that, the show will fail.
I’ve never seen hard work fail.
Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.
The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you’re going to fail.
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.
In order to succeed, you have to fail, no? You ride a bicycle, you fail; you try a few times, you succeed.
Big corporations don’t just belong to one person or two persons but to a whole nation. If you let big corporations fail, then a lot of people are going to suffer.
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.
It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.
There’s nothing as exciting as a comeback – seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
Know what you want to achieve prior to starting to negotiate. It’s the golden rule but the one most people fail to heed. Without a plan, you allow the opposing party to define your goals instead of the other way around.
Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing ‘Fair Use’ and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
I know exactly what I’m doing when I’m doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.
Without question, I’ve either got to be a writer, or I fail.
The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord’s discipline – whether nations, cities, or individuals – suffer devastating consequences.
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.
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.
You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
Don’t be afraid to fail. You’re going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won’t get. It’s very easy to think, ‘This is not going to work for me,’ but keep at it. It’s very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.
Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?
If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, that’s when you fail.
Every girl, without fail, loves to look at a sexy picture of herself.
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.
If you’re going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven’t even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can’t be afraid to fail.
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don’t let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
I think that’s the whole point of Bridget Jones. It’s all about that it’s okay to fail.
I think there’s something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It’s humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.
It’s funny what memory does, isn’t it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.
What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
