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Failure

Default, dereliction, neglect, defeat, inadequacy

QUOTES

The only true failure lies in failure to start.
 Harold Blake Walker
 

Before you learn how to fly, Learn how to fall.
 Paul Simon
 

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
 Robert Browning
 

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
 Thomas Watson
 

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
 Thomas A. Edison
 

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
 Mary Pickford
 

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
 Gore Vidal
 

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
 Aristotle
 Nichomachean Ethics, -350

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
 Herbert Bayard Swope
 

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
 Edward Simmons
 

See Also Success

References

History
  • Turkey 1915: Gallipoli
  • The Maginot Line
  • The Edsel
  • New formula for Coca Cola
  • Charge of the Light Brigade
  • Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Ambitions of Napoleon and Hitler
  • Peace in OUr Time: Munich 1936

    Arts & Science

  • The geocentric universe
  • The scientific method of hypothesis testing
  • Drug trials (99% failures)
  • Movies: On the Waterfront, Tucker, Midnight Cowboy

    Literature

  • F Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night
  • Bernard Malamud: The Natural
  • Herman Melville: Billy Budd
  • Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
  • John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men




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