#failing

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#failing #ideology #incentive #just #powerful

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#failing #idea #ideas #ignores #itself

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#challenge #failing #i #interesting #really

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever. ↗

— John Irving

#failing #failure #piggy-sneed #save #saving

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#each #failings #forgive #friends #little

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#emotions #exactly #failing #find #kind

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. ↗

— Colin Firth

#biggest #coast #east #east coast #exceptions

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process. ↗

— David Walliams

#because #being #comedian #failing #means

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anything #blindly #consequences #creating #failing

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#combatants #command #conduct #conventions #failing