Failure Quotes
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We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.
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Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
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The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
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Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.
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Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.
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When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.
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Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.
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If you fall during your life it doesn't matter because you're never a failure if you try to get up.
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There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.
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But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
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And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
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My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
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I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.
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There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
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Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.
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If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.
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Each play was, for me, 'a different kind of failure.' And that fact, I suppose, sent me on to write the next one. (15)
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
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Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.
