Failure Quotes
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Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
Jennifer Lawrence
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I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
David Walliams
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I was taught you don't tell your secrets to strangers - certainly not secrets that expose error, weakness, failure. My generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
Margo Jefferson
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Most striking feature... is the author’s failure to understand the elementary mechanics of the competitive economic organization.
Frank Knight
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Failure can only open more doors for you as a person and as growth and life.
Laura Ramsey
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Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable.
Jerome Powell
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I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.
Paloma Ayana Stoecker
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Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure.
James Hetfield
Metallica
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Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
James Mark Baldwin
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When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'
Elizabeth Pena
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Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.
Jared Diamond
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True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz
