Steve Jobs Quotes
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.
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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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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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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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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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The artists that we grew up listening to was also independent like Master P, like Birdman and Lil Wayne. Those are the people that we wanted to model ourselves after. Throwing on the Cartier frames, the army-style fatigue jackets.
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
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Dylan can do no wrong.
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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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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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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
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Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
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When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.
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I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?
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I have so many ideas while I'm driving.
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The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.
