In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment and is not improved is surely a therapeutic failure.
Nothing succeeds they say like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
I can accept failure everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails you think 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.
Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience which we call consciousness relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.
Misdirected focus on paperwork on procedures and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents worried five of them to death impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails we hold an election and assassinate their character.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent 10 percent to the manager and 5 percent to the lawyer plus the publicist gets a flat fee which needs to be budgeted for.
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
No man fails who does his best.
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes or fails to come in the first conception and revision only affects the detail and ornament alas!
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says but from what he fails to say and do.