Failure Quotes
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I am not working for failure, but for success, and for a real gain, and I must go the way to get it. I am sure the putting manhood suffrage in the Bill is not the way to get it. This has been done by the Chartists, and by the Complete Suffragists, but what has become of their Bills?
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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.
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They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
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I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !
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'I cannot define failure because I don't believe in failure. There is no failure in my book. All I see is success, directed by the Spirit of God.'
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I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.
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Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'
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To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
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I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.
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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.
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The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.
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Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
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I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
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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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Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.
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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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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
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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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Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
