#fail

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. ↗

— Joan Didion

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Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#failed #first #freeze #i #i always

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#almost #chemistry #failed #i

The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#fail #must #our #term #too

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! ↗

— Doug Larson

#friend #overlooks #success #tolerates #true

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#because #conceal #exist #express #fail

Nothing fails like failure. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#failure #like #nothing

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#fails #failure #like #nothing #say

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure. ↗

— Peter Yarrow

#any #before #careful #deliberation #example

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts