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«An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
| About:
Failure,
Motivation
| Keywords:
fails, failures, inventor, practice, shots, simply, succeeds, the inventor, treats
«A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.»
Author: Elmer G. Letterman
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
failure, fall, Fall of Man, him, many, pushed, push on, push up, says, The Fall of Man, times
«Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.»
«A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable»
Author: Leslie Lamport
| About:
Computers,
Failure
| Keywords:
computer, computer system, distributed, distributes, Distributing, existed, render, system, unusable
«All war represents a failure of diplomacy»
«All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Failure,
Prostitution
| Keywords:
criminals, drunkards, lacking, perverts, prostitutes, psychotic, psychotics, suicides
«All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Failure
| Keywords:
doomed, equivalent
«Ambition is the last refuge of failure.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Ambition,
Expectation,
Failure
| Keywords:
refuge
«A stumble may prevent a fall.»
«By that sin fell the angels.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Failure,
Sin
| Keywords:
fallen angel, The Angels
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