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You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
by Andrew Taylor Still (Scientist, American , born in 1828) keywords: dome, facts, fail, failures, faulty, feet, find, men, place, say, side, stamp, success, successes, their, throwing, truth , will People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
by Kristin Scott Thomas (Actor, English , born in 1960) keywords: able, accuse, being, emotions, failures, faults, illustrate, off, qualities, recognize, see, spark, them, thing, things, those, use, want , won The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
by James Tobin (Economist, American , born in 1918) keywords: capitalist, causes, depression, disasters, economies, failures, great, miserable, political, root, social, were , worldwide In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.
by Wietse Venema (Scientist, Dutch , born in 1951) keywords: around, controlled, deal, equipment, experiments, failures, had, inside, kinds, learned, life, multiple, nets, physics, possible, previous, probably, rely, safety, software, systems, where , wrote To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
by Denis Waitley (Writer , American) keywords: concentrate, establish, failures, forget, lives, must, negatives, our, self-esteem, successes , true The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
by Barbara Walters (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: accomplishments, failures, front, man, nothing, page, records, sports , usually At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
by Bill Walton (Athlete, American , born in 1952) keywords: because, better, failures, never, person, player, said, say, something , would For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
by Mary A. Wardkeywords: after, attempts, clearly, failures, fiction, had, made, marriage, various, were , write I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
by Earl Warren (Judge, American , born in 1891) topics: Sports keywords: accomplishments, always, failures, first, front, man, nothing, page, pages, records, sports, turn , which Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
by Len Wein (Cartoonist, American , born in 1948) keywords: catastrophes, complete, even, failures, feedback, finished, generate, gone, most, positive, some, sometimes, stories, sure, them, things, thought, were, which, written , your Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
by Orson Welles (Actor, American , born in 1915) keywords: amusing, because, class, counted, criminals, distinction, ethical, failures, make, money, never, problem, real, those , very None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
by Morris West (Writer, Australian , born in 1916) keywords: against, any, corruption, failure, failures, follies, going, guaranteed, human, kind, moment, nature, none, us, witness , world You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.
by Tina Weymouth (Musician, American , born in 1950) keywords: even, failures, just, learn, love, more, much, sometimes , your But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
by Wayne Whitekeywords: anything, failures, magnitude, nobody, our, part, predicted, reconstruction, resistance, spurred , terms The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
by Wendell Willkie (Lawyer, American , born in 1892) keywords: against, apparent, defense, democracy, failures, forces, function, glaringly, home, made, our, some, threaten , without There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
by Charles E. Wilson (Businessman, American , born in 1886) keywords: aftermath, backward, case, certainly, countries, crop, drastically, failures, level, living, mass, may, nations, our, partial, prosperous, reduced, some, standard, subsistence, wars , where And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.
by Will Wright (Scientist, American , born in 1960) keywords: bugs, cool, every, failures, find, hunt, interpret, know, now, sims, terms, them, then, those , treasure
