film

Game Over

2005 film by Pekka Lehto

Notable quotes

“There is an element of failure in all success.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, Part III: The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity
“To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.”
— Ivar Giaever, Electron Tunneling and Superconductivity, Nobel Lecture [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1973/giaever-lecture.pdf ] (December 12, 1973).
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
— John Keats, Preface to Endymion (1818).
“I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.”
— John D. Rockefeller, as quoted in Silas Hubbard, John D. Rockefeller and His Career, p. 72 (1904).
“[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.”
— Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, closing paragraph of preface.
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
— Oscar Wilde, "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young," The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, vol. 10, p. 213 (1923).

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“There is an element of failure in all success.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, Part III: The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity
“To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.”
— Ivar Giaever, Electron Tunneling and Superconductivity, Nobel Lecture [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1973/giaever-lecture.pdf ] (December 12, 1973).
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
— John Keats, Preface to Endymion (1818).
“I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.”
— John D. Rockefeller, as quoted in Silas Hubbard, John D. Rockefeller and His Career, p. 72 (1904).
“[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.”
— Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, closing paragraph of preface.
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
— Oscar Wilde, "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young," The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, vol. 10, p. 213 (1923).

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.