“In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed up my plan of life. When I fail I get upset. Sometimes I get upset too quickly, without thinking of consequences.” ThinkingSometimesPastPlansFailingConsequenceBaseballTwentiesUpsetTwenty OneSuperstarMessed Up Author:Albert Belle
“Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.” KnowsWantYearsLastsPleasureKnow HowPlansFailingMinutesDogFoolTwentiesSupremePlanningCunningLast Minute Author:Wallace Stegner
“The financial crisis was a classic case of the political class failing the American people. Twenty-five agencies were supposed to be minding the store during the financial crisis and every one of them was asleep at the switch.” PeoplePoliticalClassCasesFiveFailingTwentiesCrisisFinancialStoresSupposed To BeClassicAgencyTwenty FiveFinancial Crisis Author:Carly Fiorina
“Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.” MindHeartEarthCoursesHeavenEnjoyBornFailingMonthsTwentiesChristmasFifthMirthMerry ChristmasChristmas ThoughtsChristmas LoveShort ChristmasReligious ChristmasMeaning Of Christmas Author:Leigh Hunt
“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.” PeopleFirstsHumansReasonEvilToo MuchFailingCenturyStyleHuman NatureCapitalismTwentiesCommunismSovietFlawedUndoneEdificeHuman IntelligenceToo Much Power Book:Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire Source: Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire
“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.” JoyPassionMemoriesToo MuchFailingYouthBeatsTwentiesSensesTemptationYieldGet BackLimbsPulseExquisiteHideousPuppetsDegeneratesSluggish Book:Picture of Dorian Gray Source: Picture of Dorian Gray
“At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.” RealAgeDesireAbilityFailingTwentiesAgingFortyHidingFragile Author:Gerard Depardieu
“If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance.” IfsGivingShouldMayDoeEnoughFactsSeemsScienceLinesLevelsResultsFailingLowsDrawsStandardsHundredTwentiesExperimentsFiftySignificanceStatisticsCentsOddsScientific Facts Author:Ronald Fisher