Failure Quotes
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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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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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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
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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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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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When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.
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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.
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Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
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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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Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.
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There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, and when I say they are foolproof, that's exactly the case.
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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
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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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Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
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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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I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.
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Failure is a fundamental factor of success.
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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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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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God never places us in any position in which we can not grow. We may fancy that He does. We may fear we are so impeded by fretting, petty cares that we are gaining nothing; but when we are not sending any branches upward, we may be sending roots downward. Perhaps in the time of our humiliation, when everything seems a failure, we are making the best kind of progress.
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I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
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When people are compulsively and constantly pulled back into the past, to the last time they felt intense involvement and deep emotions, they suffer from a failure of imagination, a loss of the mental flexibility. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.
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Magic was always bound to claim her in the end, in retrospect, but love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
