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“Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.”

Writing Wells Enough Seems Literature Realizing Failing One Thing Depends

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.”

World Needs Country Government Age Values Failing One Thing Air Succeed Organization Glasses Islands Agency Linked Shareholders Stakeholder Government Agencies Business Organization

Author:Don Tapscott

“It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.”

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.”

Way Children Play Happens Black Failing One Thing Talent Genius Discrimination Making Money Dozen Translate Flair

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.”

Ifs Mean Stills Failing One Thing Really Mean

Author:Alice Sebold

“Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to do for him, and the one thing he never fails to want is more money.”

Thinking Men Want God Together Failing One Thing More Money Council Pretentious Get Together

Author:Barbara G. Walker

“If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.”

People Ifs Knows Way Trying Facts Inspiration Loses Know How Failing One Thing Willing Succeed Scared Best Way Hardest Do The Best Trying My Hardest

Author:Kanye West

“It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.”

Ifs Wells Persons Able Animal Practice Study Failing One Thing Figures Objects Particular Genius Honor Painter Landscape Branches Academy

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Failing at something is one thing, but Buddhism tells us that it is up to us how we interpret that failure [Buddhism] a philosophy and way of life that resonates with me I identify with it. I agree with so much of the sentiment behind it. I enjoy the liberating effect it's had on me to get back into the game Buddhism, with its concepts of karma and rebirth, have freed me from the twin fears of death and life without rugby, like life, will also come to an end.”

Way Ends Philosophy Games Enjoy Behinds Failing One Thing Effects Buddhism Concepts Agree Karma Life And Death Get Back Sentiments Twins Rebirth Liberating Fear Of Death Rugby

Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“One thing that I've realized is that you're never going to be 100 percent successful. You're always going to be let down. When you have God in your life and you follow Christ, you're never going to be let down. Every time that you fail, He's there to pick you right back up. Every time you think the world's going to end because you had a couple of bad games, God's there to remind you that's not what it's all about.”

Thinking World Ends Games Christ Successful Failing One Thing Couple Picks Percent Let Down Bad Games

Author:Mark Teixeira

“Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.”

Should Lord Failing Trouble One Thing Danger Scripture Foe

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c

“Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor - it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.”

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Life has its share of fears and failures. Sometimes things fall short. Sometimes people fail us, or economies or businesses or governments fail us. But one thing in time or eternity does not fail us-the pure love of Christ.”

People Doe Sometimes Government Fall Christ Economy Failing One Thing Share Pure Eternity Pure Love

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.”

Ifs Mind May Mean Destiny Failing One Thing Divine Absolutes Just One Sole Our Destiny Your Destiny Control Your Destiny

Author:Napoleon Hill

“I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.”

Failing One Thing Goes On Periods Sean Great Respect

Author:Madonna Ciccone