Charles Dickens Quotes

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

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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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• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

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• I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

  

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• On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

  

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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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• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

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• From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

  

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• Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

  

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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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• I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.

  

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• Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

  

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• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  

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• There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.

  

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• Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

  

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• If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.

  

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• I don't usually get star struck, but I met Sir Paul McCartney randomly on Sunset Boulevard a few years ago, and I lost it! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, and I didn't know how to speak. It was crazy. He was nice enough to talk to my family and me for 10 minutes, but I remember babbling away about nonsense.

  

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• Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.

  

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• Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Failure
  • Learn
  • Teaches