Failure Quotes
-
The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not as quick of a process. There are a lot more voices coming in and saying 'This is what the sequel should be' because there's a bigger expectation and a bigger fear of failure. And that's really what's going on with 'Chronicle 2.'
-
I cannot think of any venture I have initiated where an earlier failure wasn't an important precursor to an eventual success.
-
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
-
Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not only to establish what our situation is, we have to choose it in the very heart of its ambiguity.
-
Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
-
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
-
Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
-
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
-
It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.
-
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
-
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.
-
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
-
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
-
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.
-
I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.
-
It is common for those who flourish under any system to feel that the failure of others is deserved.
-
It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
-
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
-
Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.
-
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
-
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
-
I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
-
The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.
-
I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
