Failure Quotes
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You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.
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I tell myself it's a virtue, my failure to sleep in my own house, or at all. I tell myself that I spend more hours than most people aware that I am alive, and that over a lifetime this adds up to more living, more aliveness. I am more alive than the rest of my family. Which is my greatest night fear. Which is why I hunt. I don't ever want to be more alive than they are.
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Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.
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Failure is a part of my job, but I always see it as an opportunity to approach my work differently.
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It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.
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There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
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It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty.
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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.
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In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.
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Absence of failure does not constitute success.
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Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.
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I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.
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It's ok to fail. Failing does not shape your personality; it's how you react upon your failure. Do you dust yourself off and mope or do you dust yourself off and come back stronger the next time? Eventually you will win. It may not happen the next time, it may take a little time but you will win in the end.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
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The not-understanding was worse than anything else, it was like a mystery and a wound that couldn't heal and an unforgivable failure.
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The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
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Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
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Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
