Failure Quotes
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Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Failure is impossible.
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There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.
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I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.
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Assad's failure to meet deadline on destroying chemical weapons is just the latest example of Obama's failed Syria policy.
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If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
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If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.
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We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.
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I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth.
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The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.
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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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I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own failure.
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I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
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But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is understood as referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures; only then could my fraudulence be a project and not merely a pathology; only then could my distance from myself be redescribed as critical, aesthetic, as opposed to a side effect of what experts might call my substance problem, felicitous phrase, the origins of which lay not in my desire to evade reality, but in my desire to have a chemical excuse for reality’s unavailability.
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But the greatest error is not to move. The greatest error is to be paralysed by the fear of failure.
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Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.
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Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.
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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
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Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
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Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
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I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
