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fizzle

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1. fizzle - Noun

2. fizzle - Verb

Meaning

To make a hissing sound.

To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.

A failure or abortive effort.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Passion is absolutely necessary to achieve any kind of long-lasting success. I know this from experience. If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Donald Trump

We whipped our strangeness and newness into a froth that resembled love, and we dared not play too long with it, talk too much of it, or it would flatten and fizzle away. Philip Roth

I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson - touring when I'm 70. To do that, you can't be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out. Gary Allan

Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens - when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results - we think: 'How lucky!' But we don't usually acknowledge all the times when things just... fizzle out. All the times when preparation comes to nothing. Marc Randolph

I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy. Robert Smith (musician)

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life. Shane Filan

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