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“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.”

Ifs Failing Policy Fame Percent Baseball Halls Foreign Policy Hitting Hall Of Fame

Author:Robert Kagan

“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”

World Inspirational Lasts Found Simple Money Business Failing Honesty This World Fame Goodness Riches Genuine This Life

Book:Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys; a Sequel to

Source: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys; a Sequel to

“He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”

Soul Passion Causes Failing Fame Instinct Noble Generous Ardent Owing Great Souls Noble Causes

Book:Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier

Source: Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier

“A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.”

Men Sometimes Wanted Evil Opportunity Chance Failing Fame Hundred Riches Meddling One Chance

Book:Novels, 1930-1935

Source: Novels, 1930-1935

“When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.”

“Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.”

Lying Fall Failing Fame Majors Greek Honour Vow

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

“Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill of the new. But they rarely sustain the glow. They are balloons kept aloft by a restless crowd. Only the strange, the freaks of restaurant perfection, can sustain life beyond a few years.”

Years Failing Strange Fame Perfection Mad Crowds Excitement Restaurants Freak Thrill Restless Balloons Notoriety Bustle

Author:Sam Sifton