Failure Quotes
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Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.
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Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing.
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Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
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Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.
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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.
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It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.
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The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
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I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.
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I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
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Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.
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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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As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.
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To legislation... the Puritans resorted. Instead of guiding, they repressed, and thus pitted themselves against the unconquerable impulses of human nature. Believing that nature to be depraved, they felt themselves logically warranted in putting it in irons. But they failed; and their failure ought to be a warning to their successors.
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For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
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So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
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Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our hands.
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People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure.
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Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!
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Failure is the mother of success mother. I learned from that passion and sincerity.
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A prosthetically enhanced imagination is still liable to failure, especially if it is not used with sufficient rigor.
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Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.
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As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.
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Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
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The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
