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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

~Cyndi Lauper

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I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

~Daniel Johns

Topics: Failing Forget High Know People Record Risk Run Tour Will You

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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Assume Beliefs Company Competent Effect Else Everything Everything Else Failing First First Impression Good Halo Impression Inept Look Looks May People Sets Strong Subsequent Succeeding Thing Up You Your

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As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

~Daniel Lubetzky

Topics: Be True Believe Best Dad Dominance Failing Greatest Kindness Knew Led Often Opposite Others Over Portrayed Recognize Show Sign Society Something Strength Superiority Too True Weakness While

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The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

~Daniel Pauly

Topics: Crisis Economy Failing Our Similar System Whole

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The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.

~Daniel Tosh

Topics: About Angeles Anywhere Constantly Deals Failing Get Go Great Great Thing Los Los Angeles Lot Money Much Paid So Much Money Still Television Thing Town You

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We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Artists Bubbles Children Cultivate Cultivating Doing Entrepreneurs Environments Failing Follow Front Games Generation Highly Hours Instead Mark Organized Pioneers Raising Rules Screens Sit Sports Standardized Sterile Structured Tests Today Who

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In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Children Creativity Curiosity Denying Discover Era Explore Failing Frenzy Imagination Inspire Lawsuit Mania Opportunities Our Paranoia Parental Play Short Testing Them Tinker

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Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Academically Activity Also Becoming Behind Criminal Engaging Even Failing Falling Greater Integrate Just Kids Obese Overweight Play Risk Socially Who

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I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

~Dave Chappelle

Topics: Around Cool Failing Know Long Love Love Me Me People Unconditionally

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