Failure Quotes
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There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season.
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So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.
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Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.
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There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.
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The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
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The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure.
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The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.
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Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.
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My citizen activism is a direct outgrowth of a classical and fiscally conservative training in economics at Harvard. It is a perspective rooted in one of the most important concepts in economics - the need for government intervention in the presence of a market failure.
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Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
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If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.
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Everyone understands the European Union is a failure. It has not kept any of its promises - in particular about prosperity, security - and, worst of all, has put us under a guardianship.
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I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
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It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.
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I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
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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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Whenever you have a failure or setback, you need to take a step back and find out what you can learn from the scenario. What did you do to contribute to that failure? This way, you can make sure you don't repeat that pattern.
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In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?
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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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America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.
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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
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In any case the road to success is pictured as one beset with perils but which, it would seem, an individual with the proper qualities can overcome to attain the goal. The reward is seen in the distance; the way is lonely. Further on it is a route for wolves; one can succeed only at the cost of the failure of others.
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I feel guilty sometimes. It may be that innate English nature - the need to think that you must've done something wrong if you're a success. It's sometimes better if you can say: 'Okay, I'm a failure; now will you be my friend?'.
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In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.
