Zitat des Tages über Scheitern / Fail:
Investors do not like losing money. They do not like companies that fail. They do not like entrepreneurs that fail. There is not a culture of celebrating failure in Silicon Valley or anyplace else. That is a myth. Recognize this, and if you start another business, get it to a successful point before approaching outside investors again.
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
We have institutions that have been allowed to become too big to fail because we had all kinds of flaws in our financial infrastructure, in the whole way over-the-counter derivatives work.
Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
If the massive invasion is not stopped, we are going to be flooded to the extent that we will drift into third world status. For our children and for our grandchildren, we cannot fail on this issue.
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
It's not OK to fail. It's that things can fail and absolutely will go wrong - just keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.
I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there.
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission Street, a few strides from the waterfront. It has excellent food and wine very much in the modern California style, but I go there less for any one dish than for the pleasure of dining with the restaurant's chefs.
Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime.
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.
I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but didn't make it. If you're just walking down the street and something bad just happens to you, that's not really a fail on your part. You might call that situation a fail.
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.
I made video art for quite a long time, and I made this video covering myself in burgers and dancing to Major Lazer and doing covers of Britney Spears songs... I can't remember how I got there, but my teacher said he'd have to fail me because it had mild nudity.
When you fail at something, the best thing to do is think back to your successes, and try to replicate whatever you did to make them happen.
Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.