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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it . Because there is, of course, always the desire, the hope, that they are not two separate worlds, sound and silence, but that they become each other, that only our hearing fails.

It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.

Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.

The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

Hate will keep you alive where love fails

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website's information is hard to read or doesn't answer users' key questions, they leave. Note a pattern here?

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.