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“The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.”

People Ifs Trying Mind Failing Succeed Entrepreneur

Author:Richard Branson

“Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.”

People Ifs Looks Mistake Failing Band Starting Horrible Painter Idiot Nonprofits Horrible Mistakes

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise - ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out. Playing it safe. Following the rules. They seem like the best ways to avoid failure. Alas, that pattern is awfully dangerous. The current marketing “rules” will ultimately lead to failure. In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.”

“I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.”

People Thinking Firsts Children Care President Roles Failing Husband Majors Take Care First Lady

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.”

People Men Next Failing Destroyed Destroying Rebellious Resisting Getting Along Destroying Yourself

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.”

People Care Challenges Failing Health Care Status Quo Shrinks

Author:Michael Bennet

“When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.”

People Needs Grows Process Company Failing

Book:Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

“When you gossip about another person, listeners unconsciously associate you with the characteristics you are describing, ultimately leading to those characteristics' being “transferred” to you. So, say positive and pleasant things about friends and colleagues, and you are seen as a nice person. In contrast, constantly complain about their failings, and people will unconsciously apply the negative traits and incompetence to you.”

People Persons Nice Failing Negative Complaining Characteristics Pleasant Gossip Contrast Traits Listeners Colleagues Associates Describing Incompetence Nice Person Pleasant Things

Book:59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot

Source: 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot

“It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.”

People Giving Care Failing Giving Up Program Not Giving Up

Author:Pete Carroll

“Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs.”

People Should Mean Important Belief Failing Criticize

Author:Colin McGinn

“He who wins people, prospers; he who loses them, fails. Your present plan should be to seek humans of high aims and farseeing views, and you can establish yourself firmly.”

People Should Humans Winning Loses Views Plans Failing Aim Kingdoms

Author:Zhou Yu

“I ask to become a faery because I love a faery queen, and because she deserves to have someone who loves her for who she is, not what she is. She needs me. There are people-good people-I love and I'm a liability to them because I'm a mortal. I'm fragile. I'm fine. I am in this world. People I care about, the woman I love, friends in all three of the courts This is where I belong. I just need you to give me what it takes to stay with them and be strong enough not to fail them.”

People World Needs Giving Enough Care Three Asks Strong Failing This World Fine Deserve Give Me Court Mortals Queens Good People Fragile I Care Strong Enough Need You Liability

Author:Melissa M

“Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.”

People Ideas Effort Support Path Failing Sacrifice Love You Connections And Love Luck Competition Ill Curse Neglect Inability Bad Luck Ill Will Support And Love

Author:James Altucher

“Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.”

People Government Failing Aids Commit Governance Unwilling Good Governance

Author:Lee H. Hamilton

“All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one.”

People Should Said Political Interest Failing Economic Institutions Democratic Doctrine Revolutionary Replaced Political Institutions

Book:Democracy for the Few

Source: Democracy for the Few

“Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.”

Source: The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community

“Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.”

People Knows World Way Giving Persons Art Ends Certain Sports Religious Know How Failing Function Meaningful Graves Awful Meaning Of Life Nonsense Meaningless Life Means

Author:Woody Allen

“I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big debate is how big these public goods are, where they exist, things of that sort.”

People Thinking Bigs Cases Failing Benefits Debate Goods Capture

Author:Peter Thiel

“Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.”

People World Past Moving Born Hurt Deals Situation Failing Cry This World Becoming Mess Fearful Bloody Differentiate

Author:Robert Greene

“Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has a go. Editors, DPs, actors, craft services guy, everybody wants to try it out but it is such a diffuse but necessary set of skills that you never know which one this person might lack.”

People Knows Want Trying Persons Might Jobs Guy Actors Easy Failing Skills Crafts Editors Alchemy

Author:Joss Whedon

“We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.”

“Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.”

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.”

People Children Order Break Failing Goes On British Empires Thieves Disappoint British Empire Moths

Author:Fay Weldon

“What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.”

People Fighting Force Wish Party Effort Failing Amount Taxes Bills Corporations Anxious Schedules Resorts Headlines Reduction Friction Splitting Tariffs

Author:William Howard Taft

“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”

“If you ask what's been my secret of success, most might say it's my God-given athletic ability to throw a football. While talent is important, it's not necessarily the most important thing. Thousands of talented people fail every day. My strength has been my will to win-that competitive fire inside.”

People Ifs Has Beens Important Might Asks Winning Given Ability Secret Fire Failing Talent Football Important Things Nfl Athletic Secret To Success Will To Win Fire Inside Athletic Ability

Book:Comeback Kid

Source: Comeback Kid

“Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.”

“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.”

People Ifs Writing Looks Important Ends Hands Wanted Earth Literature Existence Struggle Failing Example Months Important Things Hunger Hungry Plenty Behave Paradox Leisure

Author:Stig Dagerman

“There is a glaring FEE in FrEEbie that most of the people, more often than not, fail to see.”

People Failing Fees

Author:Anuj

“I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?”

People Way Want Feels Ideas Values Choices Asks Millions Knowing Failing Stage Taste Notes Wrong Choices Value Systems

Author:Amy Poehler

“People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.”

People Ifs Way Needs Self Faces Failing Achieve Possibility Self Respect

Author:Charles A. Murray

“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.”

People Ifs Should Long Stills Ends Use Waiting Pieces Failing Journey Information Quiet Travel Train Valuable Practicals Nervous Glances Impatient Arrivals Railroads Conductor Pacing

Author:Anna Brackett

“Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes.”

People World Littles Different Done Running Causes Attention Failing Mere Merit Sentiments Dislike Neglected Trifles Despised

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.”

People Knows Feelings Happens Lying Know How Failing Hatred Silent Manners Good Times Covered Host Guests Provoking Weary Concealed Breeding Good Breeding Covered Up

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.”

People Jobs Remember Understanding Failing Projects Entrepreneur Investing Remember You Remembers You

Author:Dave McClure

“Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.”

People Failing Failure

Author:Judith Perelman Rossner

“When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.”

People Government Political Process Moral Failing Treats Democratic Cancer Corruption Routine Cynicism Wrongdoing Democratic Government

Author:Edward Brooke

“Even the strongest personality will regress and eventually may disintegrate if there is no incentive (other than threat of punishment) for the work he does. When there is no feeling to accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.”

People Ifs May Children Doe Feelings Work Failing Personality Threat Punishment Accomplishment Strongest Decline Old People Incentives

Author:Joe Whitney

“Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.”

People Failing

Author:Peter DeFazio

“There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.”

People Grace Failing Faults Accomplishment Charm

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous.”

People Has Beens Problem Cities Failing Air Wind Environmental Clouds Blow Fortunate Concentration Pollution Conservation Urgent Poisonous

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“According to the 'food waste pyramid', ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.”

People Next Animal Failing Waste Priorities Best Things Farms Pyramids Top Priorities Food Waste

Author:Tristram Stuart

“Eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help. Whether it's going to be a consortium or one entity remains to be seen. I could be wrong. I could be one of the old fogies! Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. It happens. A company has to be willing to bear the risk of its rocket failing. It's a very large capital investment.”

People Way Helping Happens Able Company Failing Risk Willing Bears Tough Remains Investment Enterprise Suspects Entity Rockets Nasa Orbit Private Enterprise Rocket Science Capital Investment

Author:Sally Ride

“One of the reasons so many people fail is they get on this treadmill for an hour or an hour and a half. That's totally unnecessary. If it's cardiovascular, you don't need more than 15 to 17 or 18 minutes if it's vigorous.”

People Ifs Needs Reason Hours Half Failing Minutes Unnecessary Vigorous Treadmills Cardiovascular

Author:Jack LaLanne

“I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."”

People Want Persons Dream Cases Audience Failing Boring Performers Throwing Tomatoes Boring Things

Author:Laurie Anderson

“No matter how many people celebrate your gifts, don't ever think that you are more important to them than your gift is to them. This is why many people fail: They fail because they think that people came to follow them.”

People Thinking Important Matter Failing Celebrate

Author:Myles Munroe

“So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.”

People Next Failing Fabulous Fear Of Failing

Author:RuPaul

“The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.”

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