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“We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.”

Ifs Trying Powerful Millions Failing Events Charity Profit Experiments Upset Endeavor Curves Revenue Attorney Paramount Fundraising Learning Curve Fundraising For Charity

Author:Dan Pallotta

“Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.”

Wells Helping Failing Bears Sorrow Helping Others Endeavor

Book:The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty

Source: The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty

“To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.”

Grief Failing Endeavor Distress Mourn Distressing

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it's thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context.”

Humans Humor Funny Law Universe Courses Failing Function Down And Endeavor Collapse Slow Down Gigs Pointless Rendering Entropy Slowing Of Context Thermal

Author:Bill Bailey

“As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.”

Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Goal Practice Failing Evolution Succeed Ego Concerned Endeavor Spiritual Life Success Or Failure

Author:Andrew Cohen

“If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.”

Ifs Effort Failing Depends Amount Succeed Peaceful Resolve Endeavor Great Future

Author:Akio Morita

“I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human endeavors, but I think the methodology of our science - using it to postulate and to use the proper approach of creating falsifiable hypotheses and then testing them to see if they ring true, and then progressing by finding the anomalies to our theoretical structure, and then improving our theoretical structure to take care and test the anomalies - is the way to go, because that helps us discover what the universe.is all about and our relationship to it.”

“He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.”

Long Work Wealth Power Courage Failing Honesty Ambition Endeavor

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“I wish I could say I coined the phrase "failing forward." I do it all the time. I find as I've embraced this approach to business, life, cycling and generally any new endeavor I take on, I've grown more and more comfortable with the possibility that I am not likely to succeed on my first try. And that's ok.”

Trying Firsts Wish Failing Possibility Succeed Comfortable Approach Phrases Endeavor Cycling Business Life

Author:John C. Maxwell