Failure Quotes
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In a curious failure of comprehension, I looked alertly about me for possible targets for all this artillery fire, not, apparently, realizing that it was actually ourselves that the enemy gunners were trying for all they were worth to hit.
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We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.
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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.
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Success and failure are equally surprising.
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We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
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Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
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At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
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You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation.
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Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
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I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
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Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
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If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers.
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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.
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My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
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You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
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It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.
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When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
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It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.
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So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.
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But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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I wish my prose to be transparentĀI don't want the reader to stumble over me; I want him to look through what I'm saying to what I'm describing. I don't want him ever to say, Oh, goodness, how nicely written this is. That would be a failure.
