Sentences with phrase «brushes with failure»

They share their secrets of success, their brushes with failure, and their everyday rituals — all which have helped them cultivate beautiful, exceptional lives.

Along the way, these hapless idiots brush with failure, but it's only when they achieve success that their world really begins to fall apart.

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At this stage, it is Catholic teaching itself which is felt in some obscure way to be responsible for the abuse, rather than human failure at the individual and institutional level, and other Christian denominations are beginning to wake up to the fact that this is a brush with which they too are ultimately tarred, since (C. S. Lewis again), most Catholic teaching is simply Christian doctrine.

We must not paint everybody with the same brush and say that all the «big beasts» were failures, just because Major's government was ultimately unsuccessful.

But let's face it, it's not 1950 and I am a long way from tarnishing myself with any brush of failure.

While you can easily counter that with — you brush your own teeth, take out your own garbage or pay your own bills, so why not invest your own money — there is an excellent reason: the consistent failure of professional money management in providing market beating returns to retail investors.

Canberratimes: Doha's failure shows they must develop their own solutions, writes William Pesek New York's brush with developing - nation status is an even bigger warning for Asia than it is for the United States.The city could be excused for wondering if it had suddenly been transported to Bangladesh in October.

Some journalists, once they experience a near brush with self - importance, lose touch with who and what they are; the limelight of fame must shine upon them, «else they are failures.