A Quote by George Carlin

Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.

George Carlin

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George Carlin
American - Comedian
May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

William A. Henry III

There is no such thing as failure, only partial success!

Suzanne Yoculan

Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.

Sally Satel

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Scott Berkun

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Joseph Heller

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Fred Brooks

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

Og Mandino

Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.

Fran Tarkenton

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

Smiley Blanton

And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.

David O. Russell

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.

Anushka Shetty

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Michael Crawford

To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.

Bill Ayers

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