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failing
«Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.»
Author: Julie Andrews
(Actress, Singer)
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Perseverance
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failing, perseverance, succeeding
«Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.»
«The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.»
«One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Potential
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failing, king, live up to, possibilities, potentialities, potentiality, rival, rivaled, treated
«Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many chances as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHIN»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
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Chance
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abolished, abolishing, as many, chances, failing, graded, grades, grade school, grading, Losers, resemblance, schools, slightest, winners
«The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
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employee, experiment, failing, hired, intelligently, keep on, learns, newly, over and over, train
«The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
failing, limited, notice, range, shapes, The Range
«What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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Elderly
| Keywords:
burden, faculties, failing
