Failing Quotes

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.

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.

And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.

The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.