#failing

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. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bear #burden #faculties #failing #hard

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#been #big #career #childhood #constantly

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#fact #failing #him #his #implicit

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. ↗

— David Plouffe

#back #class #congress #could #dream

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed. ↗

— Carl Reiner

#anybody #comedy #drama #even #failed

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#failing #grow #grow up #i #keep

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#badly #easy #especially #failing #father

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#am #anything #arrive #character #doing

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

— Cyndi Lauper

#else #everything #experienced #failing #i

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#attention #failing #food #four #just