Failure Quotes
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As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.
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Failure was being used as a weapon, rather than as an agent of learning.
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You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
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Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.
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Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
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Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
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Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.
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The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
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Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication.
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'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.
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President Obama's greatest failure is his failure regarding foreign policy and national security.
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
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In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.
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To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
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There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the failure of the federal government that has people in this country worried.
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The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
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You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.
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I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.
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With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
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Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
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Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure.
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I believe only in art and failure.
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Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
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What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
