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“We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.”

Needs Sometimes Motivational Lines Ability Failing Talent Lays Scared Never Quit Deep Down

Author:Chrissie Wellington

“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.”

World May Long Together Lasts Dies Language Lines Failing Poet Bounds Tongue Envy Vain Verses Prophecy Boast

Author:Edmund Waller

“Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick Commanded to be well." And there are totalitarian insinuations to back this up if its appeal should fail.”

Ifs Should Wells Lines Failing Quiet Sick Appeals Compassionate Irrational Humane Authoritarianism Unforgettable Monotheism Polytheism

Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.”

“Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.”

Source: Escape from Reason

“Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.”

Ifs Art Lines Perfect Failing Building Sight Instruments Complexes Musical Performing Sublime Acoustics Performing Arts Musical Instruments

Author:Moshe Safdie

“I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.”

Lines Failing Chorus Chorus Line

Author:Rob Marshall

“... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.”

Ifs Humans Able Pain Certain Found Process Born Lines Human Beings Failing Eternal Relation Mathematics Symbols Angle Manipulate Geometry Human Relations

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis and later tradition; it fails, however, in the moment when this defense of national interests must take place in a province which is either absent from the general line of its ideological world and traditional development, or is for some reason rejected.”

World Reason Moments Interest Lines Failing Development Tradition Defense Traditional Rejected Grounded Absent Ideological Genesis Provinces Defenders National Interests Protestantism

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.”

Ifs Want Ideas Purpose Lines Failing Paper Print Good Ideas Counting

Author:Erik Naggum

“The bottom line is, you can't be afraid to fail.”

Lines Failing Bottom Bottom Line Afraid To Fail

Author:Jerry Colangelo

“The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.”

Moving Lines Quality Failing Fronts Succeed Organization Folks Managers Obsessed

Author:Tom Peters

“You know that old expression "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game". That line was definitely not coined by a chef. Because for a chef, it's only about whether or not you pull through. If you fail, nobody cares how hard you tried.”

Ifs Knows Hard Play Care Games Winning Loses Lines Failing Expression Chef Win Or Lose Nobody Cares

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“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."”