Trent Reznor Quotes
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
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Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
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I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
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Three or four years ago a distinguished Frenchman, M. Hovelacque, published an article on America in the Revue de Paris in which he maintained that the essential weakness of our American civilization lay in the failure of our education to produce any equivalent of the superior man of Confucius or the καλὸς κἀγαθός of the Greeks.
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Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.
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Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.
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Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
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We thought with Alix MacKenzie, if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it should be any different in mid-North America 20th century? And we decided then that our work would center around that sort of utilitarian pottery, and that's what I've done ever since.
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I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
