Failure Quotes
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Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.
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Failure is but the longer road to triumph.
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So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
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My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
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When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems.
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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
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For many young men, joining in a radical movement is a way of feeling powerful, which is particularly intoxicating for men who feel their masculinity has been called into question, whether through victimisation or a failure to achieve the status that they feel they are entitled to.
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With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class.
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Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure.
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Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
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Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
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When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.
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A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.
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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
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Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.
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I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.
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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.
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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
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We believe that we can find the end, and that a painting can be finished. The Abstract Expressionists always felt the painting's being finished was very problematical. We'd more readily say that our paintings were finished and say, well, it's either a failure or it's not, instead of saying, well, maybe it's not really finished.
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To measure success with material things is failure!
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A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.
