Failure Quotes
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I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.
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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
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The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.
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Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of. Americans say that they want leaders who will take on these problems.
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The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
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It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
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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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It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.
Chad Hurley -
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
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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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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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Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
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There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
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For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything less than that is a failure.
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So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.'
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Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
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Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
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On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.
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To me, if we're not failing a little bit, we're not trying hard enough. I think great cultures encourage risk and are tolerant of failure. If you don't do that, you're going to end up with a culture that is stagnant and not thinking about the next generation of products and experiences.
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I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.
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What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce.
