Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ransom Riggs

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

Seth Godin

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

John Templeton

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

Peter Charlton

But it would not surprise me. If it did happen it would be pretty much a failure of leadership.

Bill Vaughan

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

William Arthur Ward

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?

Kris Kristofferson

The world situation being what it is, I have a lot to say, ... And I figure as long as I've got something to talk about, I'll probably keep talking.

Bob Gray

The word 'flu' is always dangerous. So I figured I'd see what it was all about.

Bob Becker

We figured if we got two dozen, we'd be really happy.

Jay Gibbons

First I've got to figure out what team I'm on,

Rand Pecknold

We talked about it as a team - that a point in November is as big as a point in February. It just didn't register and that's something we figured out that we have to do better next year so we can move up in the rankings.

Daron Malakian

We haven't figured out how we are going to present that yet, but it's going to come on a separate thing. I think we might put it on a separate disc.

Tony Bethel

We were just out of sync. We couldn't figure out how to get back in sync.

Glenn Johnson

We had goals set before the season and to finish with 10 or 12 wins, we thought that was realistic. We never figured to be in the final game. No matter what happens it's been a successful season.

Sara Baker

I figured if his mother wasn't nervous it would be OK,

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Porter Bibb

Sony has got a solid distribution network, ... It's got a great library and it's got a lot in the hopper ... Realistically, there are some significant buyers.

Michael Hegarty

Tennessee is a truly great and competitive opponent. I can tell by the way we played them today that we are really starting to come along.

Reggie Lewis

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.

Bill Bowles

Ross made a great play and kept them out of there.

Ryan Goodman

Ryan did a great job defensively the whole weekend, and scored just enough to win. It was a masterful performance.

Michael Nutter

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

Danny Bonaduce

You're 45 years old! I mean, there has to be a point where one grows up! I don't know what that point is going to be for you.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Kevin Johnson

This quarter marked the 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth for the server and tools business, with Microsoft SQL Server revenue up more than 30 percent over the quarter.

Brian Tracy

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement you are your most precious resource

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Bruce Feiler

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Russell Allen

We put a big sign in the window and hired a broker, so it's not like there was some secret deal.

Dave Nonis

I'm not going to talk about individual people. I want to make sure that when we hire somebody, that it's someone that we're comfortable with as a person.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Mark Sanford

What I've come to learn is that (the Jasper port) would be a private (venture), ... If that's the case, I have no problem with it whatsoever.

Tim Farriss

You have to learn to pace yourself, in everything. Sure, there's a pub in every town. But you don't have to go to all of them, right? If you want to do this, you have to learn to keep steady.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

Mexican Proverb

One must learn how to lose before learning how to play.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Bernie Bickerstaff

The opportunity was there. Offensively we were lethargic.

Henry Rollins

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Ed Rollins

People don't view him as a Republican or Democrat, and he has the resources to run without having to worry about funding.

Brent Carpenter

People don't understand the law, and they get in a hurry.

John Waters

People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge.

Matt Eastwood

People don't throw out technology for no reason.

Kevin Spacey

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

Jim Miller

People don't shop the way they used to. We had to throw in the towel.