Failure Quotes
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At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
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No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!
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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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I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.
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MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.
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Every fair from fair sometime declines
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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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When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.
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I don't feel a sense of personal failure. If there is a sense of failure, it's that I let the people who invested in me, who invested in this campaign down.
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At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
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My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
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All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
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Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
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Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
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It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
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Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
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We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.
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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.
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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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Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.
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Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
