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I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.
– George Hickenlooper
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I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.
– Susie Orbach
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I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.
– Molly Ringwald
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I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.
– Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.
– Emanuel Steward
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
– Malcolm Mclaren
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I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.
– Wesley Snipes
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I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.
– Ali Larter
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
– Alan Rickman
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I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.
– Chen Shui-bian
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I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
– Louis C. K.
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I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.
– Corey Hart
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
– Paulo Coelho
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I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.
– China Mieville
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I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
– Michael Malone
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I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
– Jean Kerr
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I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
– Jeff Tweedy
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I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.
– Mike Krzyzewski
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I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
– George Edmund Street
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
– Garry Shandling
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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
– Amy Tan
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I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.
– John Sherman Cooper
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I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
– Alexander Wang
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I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
– Alice Foote MacDougall
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I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
– Michael Baden
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I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
– Trent Reznor
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I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
– Mason Cooley
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I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.
– Shannen Doherty
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I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.
– Kristen Stewart
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I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
– Brett Favre
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I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.
– Michael Koryta
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I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.
– Gerry Beckley
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I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
– Shinzo Abe
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
– T. Boone Pickens
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I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
– Michael Buble
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I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
– Sylvester Stallone
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I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
– Ellen Page
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I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
– Lucille Ball
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I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.
– Elie Tahari
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I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.
– Tiki Barber
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I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
– Alexander Payne
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I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
– Tony Kushner
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I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
– Jonathan Kozol
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
– Natalie Goldberg
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I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
– Amy Sedaris
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I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.
– Sarah Michelle Gellar
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I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
– Emma Watson
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I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
– Cate Blanchett
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I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
– Roger Daltrey
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I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
– Darrell Issa
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
– Sam Donaldson
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I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
– David Walliams
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I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
– Amy Tan
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I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
– Jeremy Irons
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
– Herbert Bayard Swope
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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.
– Eric Ries
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I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
– Michael Jordan
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I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
– Andrew Vachss
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I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
– James Cash Penney
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I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
– Jonah Hill
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I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.
– Slavoj Zizek
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Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
– Alvin Adams
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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
– Harold Ramis
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
– Dirk Benedict
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
– Oliver Hudson
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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
– Paul Tillich
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Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
– Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.
– Lee H. Hamilton
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For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
– Iain Duncan Smith
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
– Mary Kay Ash
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Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
– Phyllis Schlafly
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Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
– James M. Baldwin
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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
– Frederick Smith
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Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
– Charles Stanley
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Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
– Douglas Wood
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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
– Tom Kite
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Failure? Scared to death of it.
– Ryan Seacrest
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
– Alastair Campbell
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Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
– Billy Dee Williams
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Failure's a natural part of life.
– John Malkovich
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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
– William Howard Taft
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Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
– Zach Wamp
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
– Natalie Goldberg
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
– Desi Arnaz
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Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
– Sanjay Kumar
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
– Orlando Bloom
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Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.
– Ron Dellums
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
– Napolean Hill
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Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
– Rick Pitino
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Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
– Doug Coupland
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Failure is always an option.
– Adam Savage
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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
– James Dyson
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Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.
– John H. Johnson
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Failure is a word unknown to me.
– Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Failure is a part of success.
– Hank Aaron
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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.
– Steve Harvey
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
– Zig Ziglar
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Failure has gone to his head.
– Wilson Mizner
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Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
– Mia Hamm
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