“The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.” MenWantKidsEnjoyCompanyLaughingFailingGayConsciousFeministInsecureGay MenMake Me Laugh Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.” KidsAudienceFailingLike YouPleasePianoRecitals Author:Rian Johnson
“Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselves. All walking is controlled falling. It’s the same with success. You learn by failing. Success is just controlled failing.” LittlesKidsFallWalksFailingWalkingControlledLittle KidCatching Author:Derek Rydall
“The greatest missile in the world is useless ... unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow is pointless unless it hits something. So it's important for kids--for everyone, even if you fail at first--to target something and head in that direction. With all your might.” IfsWorldFirstsImportantMightKidsFailingUselessTargetArrowsPointlessMissilesAdriftTorpedoes Author:Tim Allen
“A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.” IfsGivingTryingDoeSelfReasonKidsGamesGrowsParentResponsibilityGrowing UpFailingProduceHealthyAdultsSelf ConfidenceFixedDependent Author:Simon Sinek
“It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.” PeopleWantImportantSeemsKidsAgeTodayParentDecisionFailingPositionRefuseGreat ThingsProtectedAspireImportant Decisions Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
“If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada.” IfsMeanWholeHappensKidsParentBreakFailingPartnersBreaking DownArenaSiblingDisappointDysfunctionEnchiladas Author:Mary Karr
“There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the Son of God's kingdom.” WantHumansLooksMeanImportantKidsFailingSonKingdomsLook UpBeing HumanHumbling Author:Si Robertson
“What I love to tell young kids is ultimately let your dreams evolve around your opportunities. You have to focus on always learning. It's cliche, but the reality of it is that if you take action and try and fail you're gonna learn a lot by the time you try it again, and you'll build a foundation of experience that's gonna be ultimately the rock that allows you to find success or follow your dreams.” IfsTryingDreamRealityKidsActionYoungOpportunityFocusFailingRocksFoundationEvolveYour DreamsFollow Your DreamsClicheAlways Learning Author:Rob Dyrdek
“Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back.” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksTwoEndsCareKidsDiesCoursesLeftParentFailingSurvivalEthicsBuiltTalesTwo ThingsFairyFrightenedFairy TaleLook At YourselfNobody Cares Author:Stephen King
“I try as best I can to really put all I can into what I'm doing. A lot of days I fail and there's too much to do. I do think it's really important to have time to yourself, whether that's reading something interesting when the kids are in bed or even having a dog.” ThinkingTryingI CanImportantKidsReadingInterestingToo MuchFailingDogBedSomething Interesting Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.” NeedsWellsHappensKidsOrderDifficultRoomsCommonFailingSucceedCommon SenseYour Room Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“If we don't give kids the opportunity to fail when they're growing up, and to fail productively, to fail creatively, that they're going to get out there into the world and they're going to hit some kind of setback, like everybody does, and they're going to get completely derailed.” IfsWorldGivingKindDoeKidsOpportunityGrowing UpGrowingFailingSetback Author:Paul Tough
“It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.” ShouldFactsKidsTodaySchoolGrowsGrowing UpFailingGood ThingsObviousBad ThingsObvious Things Author:Edwin Catmull
“Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.” PeopleChildrenProblemKidsSchoolTeachTeacherFailingSchool System Author:Marva Collins
“I'm not singer; every time I have the urge to sing something, I don't want to do it in front of certain people. I was always that kid afraid of failing, so I just didn't do things. I don't know how to ride a bike, I don't know how to drive. I broke out of shell a bit, and I still am. I think it's more about trying to be the full person I imagine myself to be, regardless of what that means in terms of labels, shade from people, and all of that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingMeanPersonsStillsKidsCertainBitsTermKnow HowImagineFailingFrontsSingersLabelsBrokeUrgesShadeShellsBike Author:Le1f
“In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.” ThinkingWayPersonsCountryBigsKidsJobsSocialDifferencesFailingGenerationsPicksIncludingIdeologySavingOther CountriesMagnificentNormSocial NormsFreedom To Choose Author:Dan Ariely
“Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.” SometimesKidsSportsParentFailingLimitsBike Author:Marla Runyan
“Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.” YearsStatesKidsSchoolLastsChoicesFightingLeftBlackEffortMoralFocusFailingLowsBottomIncomeDestroyedWelfareGapsScreamDependencePublic SchoolWelfare StateLow IncomeBlack FamilySchool Choice Author:Star Parker
“With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.” PeopleKidsAgeFailingFoolKeep GoingNot AfraidFearlessness Author:Hugh Jackman
“If you say, "Woo, woo, woo!" to me, I'll say it back. I love it. "Woo, woo, woo" is something that my character used to say. It's something that my mother used to say to my brother and me when we were kids. When words would fail her, she'd just go, "Oh, woo, woo, woo." It's compassion. It's a combination of "I see you, I feel you, I acknowledge you, I got your back."” IfsFeelsCharacterKidsUsedMotherCompassionFailingBrotherCombinationAcknowledgeMy BrotherGot Your BackAcknowledge You Author:Kim Coles
“I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they're doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn't finished his test, but still gets to play because he is an athlete, fails the test and still gets to play because they're an athlete, gets to get away with not doing chores at home because they've got practice.” ThinkingWayStillsPlayMomentsHomeKidsSportsPracticeFailingMajorsPicksTestsBallsAthleteIllFinishedKicksThrownGet AwayCyclesJuniorsEntitlementChoresJunior High Author:John Amaechi
“We have to get the federal government out of the business of educating our kids and telling us how to do it. But when you look at how we are failing our kids and how the story that they hear about the United States and about the role we've played in the world and our role as the defender of freedom for millions across the world throughout history, you know, they aren't being prepared to stand up and work and fight and defend this nation.” KnowsWorldLooksStatesStoriesGovernmentKidsFightingNationsUnitedRolesMillionsUnited StatesFailingPreparedFederal GovernmentDefenders Author:Liz Cheney
“Before I began The Cider House Rules, I thought I wanted to write about a father-son relationship that was closer, more conflicted, and ultimately more loving, than most. Then I began to think of a relationship between an old orphanage director and an unadoptable orphan - a kid who goes out into the world and fails and keeps coming back, so that the old guy ends up with someone he's got to keep.” ThinkingWorldWritingEndsKidsWantedGuyFatherHouseFailingSonDirectorsComing BackOrphanFather SonOrphanageOld GuysCiderFather Son RelationshipHouse Rules Author:John Irving
“Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.” PeopleShouldLooksHas BeensKidsPassionFocusFailingGroupsSpecialYouthSucceedOfficeClintonFocusedServantEmpoweringServingChicagoPublic LifeServing OthersSuburbsPublic ServantsMethodists Author:Tim Kaine