In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us.
You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
We do wrong willfully when we fail to think hard about whether what we're doing is right.
Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!
You never really fail until you stop wanting.
Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.
Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!
We can't afford any president to fail.
I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.
Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.
If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?
To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
If you never quit, youll never fail.
Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people.
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.