Failure Quotes
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.
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Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.
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I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
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If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw something out of the other person in return—if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.
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Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
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My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
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The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.
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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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Much of the securitization took the form of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) with senior credit tranches certified by rating agencies as AAA. It was the failure to properly price such risky assets that characterized the crisis.
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The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.
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After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.
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I think if you just eat healthy, you're active, and you don't beat yourself up, you're setting yourself up to win rather than setting yourself up for failure.
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Greenleaf' is about family, but also about faith and failure and real human life.
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If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
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I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.
