Failure Quotes
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Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
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Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.
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For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
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The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
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Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.
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Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
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Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failure of our neighbors but their successes.
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When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
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I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.
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While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.
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At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
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No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
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The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.
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To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.
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Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
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I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny.
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The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.
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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
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We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.
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We've been publishing the TechStars data fully since the beginning on TechStars.com. For every single company, you can see if it's a failure, success, how much they raised. Entrepreneurs deserve that sort of transparency from accelerators, and it's not hard to do.
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Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.
