Failure Quotes
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The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.
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We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.
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Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
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It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.
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The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
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Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
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I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.
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All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
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If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.
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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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Every failure is a step to success.
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Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
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Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.
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I've been doing a few interviews since the loss of the SpaceX Dragon on its way to the Space Station. Each one very quickly questions the viability of what they call commercial space in light of the failure. I tell them space is hard: this is what happens early in a program with new technology.
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This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
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Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.
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Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind us to nature, as denizens of data and artifice, amid crowds and clutter, we become miserly with these loyal and exquisite guides, we numb our sensory intelligence. This failure of attention will make orphans of us all.
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No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.
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Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.
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I never look at failing as an option anyhow. I believe thinking you could fail is already shooting yourself in the foot and setting yourself up for failure.
