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“Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.”

Giving Children Turns Chance Failing Succeed Excuse Crush Halls Tigers Pianist Roaring Debut Carnegie Carnegie Hall

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.”

People Way Feelings Care Responsibility Focus Teacher Failing Buddhism Excuse Take Care Buddhist Taking Responsibility Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.”

Sometimes Enough Wanted Answers Failing Crisis Faults Painful Excuse Tongue Embarrassment Prompts Plausible Pretext Lapses Framing

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.”

Ifs Want Mind Failing Blame Excuse What You Want Hook Hinder Doing What You Want Excuse You

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Look at me as an example. I don't have the best education or the best looks. Where I'm from in Nigeria is not entertainment driven, it's the northern part of Nigeria and over there they hardly pay attention to entertainment. I came out of that place to attain this level of success. I always say if I can get here with all of these imperfections then no one has the excuse to fail in life.”

Ifs Looks I Can Levels Pay Attention Failing Example Entertainment Excuse Driven Pay Attention Imperfection Look At Me Nigeria Best Education

Author:Ice Prince

“I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.”

Thinking Opinion Failing Terrible Excuse Bored Boredom No Excuses Propensity Being Bored

Author:Geoff Dyer

“One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.”

Men Looks Mean Failing Late Faults Excuse Too Late Misfortunes Remedy

Author:Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

“It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.”

Silence Virtue Failing Draws Weakness Perfection Excuse Noble Great Things Display Curtains Shortcomings

Author:Robert South

“Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.”

Knows Sin Numbers Responsibility Cases Greater Failing Ignorance Ought Conscience Excuse Stupidity Likes Obligation Deliberation Incomprehension

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.”

People Way Humans Nations Wealth Rights Failing Hatred Western Human Rights Excuse Diets Steady Regimes Feeding

Author:Dick Cheney

“The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.”

Believe Moments Failing Excuse Crap Excuse You

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than they might have had before. We suffer from being quick to judge, quick to make excuses for ourselves and others, and I would like the reader to feel that we are all, more or less, in a similar state as we love and disappoint one another, and that we try, most of us, as best we can, and that to fail and succeed is what we do.”

Feels Trying Humans Mean Different States Might Suffering Understanding Failing Judging Reader Succeed Excuse Disappoint What It Means To Be Human Quick To Judge

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk." Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line."”

“There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.”

Knows Believe Kind Doe Self Reason Suffering Order Belief Wish Know How Failing Criticism Faults Excuse Vanity Self Criticism Overboard

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable