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The failure to achieve a negotiated solution for Kosovo and the violence, tension and de facto partition that resulted from it have their reasons in many, many different factors.
If failure destroys you, then you can't do this.
["Failure to Detect Changes in Scenes" slide] This is Ron Rensink's work, which was in some degree inspired by that suggestion right at the end of the book.
I almost never show them off because of the issue of the idea of failure.
And when we do another round of this in my class this year, they will do better this time, because learning has to include an amount of failure, because failure is instructional in the process.
The main point is that, if we continue to look at education as if it's about coming to school to get the information and not about experiential learning, empowering student voice and embracing failure, we're missing the mark.
In fact, when we first went out to raise money to start Babble, the venture capitalists said, "We categorically don't invest in companies founded by husbands and wives, because there's an extra point of failure.
But soon I was showing signs of right-heart failure, and I had to return to sea level, doing so knowing that I probably would never see my home again.
And it was right-heart failure.
Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens.
I do not want to step into a vehicle and ask the question: "Why does this car smell like awkwardness, failure and shame?" (Laughter) If I want to ask that question, I'll walk into my own bedroom.
And of course, it really doesn't have that much to do with what went wrong because cancer is a failure of the system.
I went through about 16 surgeries, and it seemed impossible to do that when I was in kidney failure when I was 10.
What I learned from these people and others was that I couldn't judge them based on their failure to meet their very lofty goals.
Cornel West says, "Of course it's a failure.
But how good a failure is it?"
The traditional model, it penalizes you for experimentation and failure, but it does not expect mastery.
I knew I had to put that failure behind me in order to move forward, and it wouldn't be the first time that I had faced insurmountable odds.
And in one sentence, he lifted me, put me back on my feet, and taught me that leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.
I believe that when you push people away from that, you're pushing them more towards failure.
And for the next 11 years, I swore nobody would ever find out that I couldn't see, because I didn't want to be a failure, and I didn't want to be weak.
We all know how hard it is to admit weakness and failure.
To leave would be failure.
4.8 million suffer cardiac failure.
The global perspective is that up to 30 percent of children in school have learning weaknesses that are not self-correcting, but with appropriate treatment, they can be screened for and detected and corrected and avoid their academic failure.
That is a huge failure rate.
It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans.
Because the worst thing we have done in Afghanistan is this idea that failure is not an option.
It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
In doing so, we've destroyed our credibility with the Security Council, which means it's very difficult to get a resolution on Syria, and we're setting ourselves up again for failure.
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