#fails

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#sometimes #succeeds

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype. ↗

— Neil Bogart

#genius #hype #just #something #succeeds

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need. ↗

— Christopher Bond

#children #education #fails #focus #frustrates

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure. ↗

— Hans Eysenck

#classed #fails #failure #finish #his

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level. ↗

— John Bruton

#economic #european #expansion #fails #financial

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#admit #another #bold #common #common sense

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. ↗

— Maria Callas

#ear #fails #heart #missed #music

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#fails #him #kill #man #prisoner

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#charge #could #excuse #fails #gets