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I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot. -- Anna Paquin
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. -- Charles Kettering
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes. -- David O. Russell
Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried. -- Og Mandino
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist, ... -- Seth Godin
The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful. -- Kathy Ireland
It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue. -- Steven Price
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. -- Charles Kettering
There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times. -- Jonathan Ive
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. -- A. S. Byatt
I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?' -- Tony Fernandes
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. -- Henry Kravis
I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong. -- Luke Evans
What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb. -- Glenn Beck
The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level. -- Terrell Davis
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. -- Yvon Chouinard
I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings. Afterward, we withdrew from one another and tried our best to strike the event from our memories. -- Koren Zailckas
My first show was called 'I Know I've Been Changed' in '92. I tried to do this show for years and years. It kept failing over and over and over again. Every time I went out to do the show, nobody showed up. I was like, 'What is this about?' -- Tyler Perry
I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be. -- Romola Garai
It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to Shakespeare, living up to that word, not failing, you know, where with Aaron Spelling it's like, just try to look good. Or maybe don't use Spelling there, that's bad. No - you can. He's dead. -- Vincent Kartheiser
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. -- Kristin Armstrong
Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously! -- Steven Van Zandt
Trying is failing with honor -- James Arthur Ray
If you aren't failing, you aren't trying. -- Woody Allen
If you're not failing, you're not trying anything. -- Woody Allen
If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough. -- Jillian Michaels
Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem. -- Jay Maisel
Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don't let it devour you. -- Michelle Sagara
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. -- Raymond Radiguet
There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing. -- Mark Miller
It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again. -- Tim Hansel
No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against. -- Chrissie Wellington
She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to -- Ann Brashares
Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know? -- Sarah Dessen
There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. -- Jay Samit
It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive. -- Dani Shapiro
There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote. -- Sara Zarr
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it -- Samuel Johnson

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