#failing

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools. ↗

— John Engler

#could #detroit #failing #i #i wish

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. ↗

— Robert Heilbroner

#alone #capitalism #class #cure #failing

Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is. ↗

— Ann Kidd Taylor

#failing #inspirational #self #inspirational

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #success #the-fortune-in-failing #inspirational

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#come #counterintelligence #department #detect #evident

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#accepted #believe #blame #capitalism #change

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful. ↗

— Pierre Nicole

#failings #hide #latter #most #others

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#characters #failings #find #had #hard

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. ↗

— Mark Skousen

#centrally #civilized #civilized society #civilized world #complete

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#failing #perseverance #succeeding #times