#failure

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#failures #god #making #mistake #must

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. ↗

— Albert Claude

#been #brutality #cell #constituents #destroyed

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. ↗

— David Brin

#berlin #berlin wall #cases #failures #fall

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#believe #camp #caused #clinton #david

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#biggest #biggest problems #bring #failure #feminist

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#best #failure #knows #life #only

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. ↗

— George Burns

#better #failure #hate #honestly #i

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#concentrate #establish #failures #forget #lives

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. ↗

— John Burroughs

#blame #else #fail #failure #man