"A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."
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"A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."
"I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos."
"The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure."
"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature."
"A love of nature is a consolation against failure."
"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."
"Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?"
"The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion."
"What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."
"One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories."
"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games."
"Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now."
"The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature."
"I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together."
"Hill Street,' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor."
"I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor."
"Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams."
"I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature."
"I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form."
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
انضم لآلاف الباحثين عن الحكمة الذين يتلقون اقتباسات يومية من أكثر من 300,000 مصدر منتقى.
مجاني دائماً. بلا إزعاج. إلغاء الاشتراك متاح دائماً.