Zitat des Tages über Fehler / Failures:
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
We've had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We're human beings, and we're not perfect. And we're mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries.
Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and receiving from each other. It entails the proper use of each other's successes and failures for mutual up-building.
I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.
In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.
In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.
The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.
We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.
You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.
You need people to encourage you along the way, both during your success and failures, because there will be both.
I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
The failures and successes are necessary for learning.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place.
I think women let themselves be burdened by failures much more than men do. They agonize - and I do it a lot, too - and rethink them.
I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
