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Failure
«If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.»
Author: Mary Pickford
(Actress)
| About:
Failure,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
chance, falling, Falling Down, fresh, fresher, freshest, fresh start, staying
«In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.»
Author: Paul Lutus
| About:
America and Americans,
Education,
Failure
| Keywords:
come away, distinguish
«It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.»
«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.»
«If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Failure,
Innovation
| Keywords:
failing, innovative, now and again, sign
«In all education the main cause of failure is staleness»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Education,
Failure
| Keywords:
main, staleness
«It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Common sense,
Failure,
Trying
| Keywords:
former, franklin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, frankly, President Roosevelt, Roosevelt