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Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.
– Eric Ries
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Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
– John Mica
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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.
– Thomas Sowell
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
– Tammy Bruce
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One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.
– Melissa Rosenberg
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One failure is worth seven and a half successes.
– Eli Khamarov
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Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
– Chanakya
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Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
– Rickey Henderson
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Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
– Margaret Drabble
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Not failure, but low aim is sin.
– Benjamin E. Mays
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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
– Morris West
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
– Napoleon Hill
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No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
– Robert W. Service
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Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
– Bob Woodward
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Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
– Cory Lidle
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Never permit failure to become a habit.
– William Frederick Book
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
– George Bernard Shaw
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My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
– Jerry Rice
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My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
– Wynonna Judd
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My reputation grows with every failure.
– George Bernard Shaw
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My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
– Mickey Gilley
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My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.
– Tom Hooper
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My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
– Takeshi Kitano
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
– Jack Kerouac
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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
– Laurence Housman
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My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
– Judd Nelson
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My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
– Dean Kamen
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My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'
– Dana Fox
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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
– Scott Adams
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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
– Fred Allen
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Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.
– Koichi Tanaka
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Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.
– Stuart Rose
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
– Karen Armstrong
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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.
– Joseph Barbera
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Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
– Maude Adams
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Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.
– John Hersey
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Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
– Robert Half
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Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
– Michael Ramsey
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Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.
– Jerry Brown
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It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
– James Taylor
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It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.
– Craig Ferguson
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It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
– Jimmy Carter
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It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.
– Carol Alt
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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
– Bryan Ferry
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
– Bill Gates
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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
– John Hersey
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It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
– Nigel Farage
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It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
– Sylvester Stallone
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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
– Gavyn Davies
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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
– Herbert Samuel
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It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
– Harry Oppenheimer
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
– J. K. Rowling
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It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.
– Scott Ritter
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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
– Edmond H. Fischer
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It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
– Chris Van Hollen
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
– Samuel Smiles
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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
– John Steinbeck
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It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.
– Mike Peters
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Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
– Johann Most
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In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
– Simon Hoggart
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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
– Harvey Fierstein
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In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
– Carol Gilligan
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In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
– Andy Murray
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
– Hans Eysenck
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
– Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
– Mike Krzyzewski
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In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.
– Toby Young
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
– Barack Obama
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
– Malcolm X
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
– Walter Pater
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In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
– Seth Godin
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If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.
– Phil McGraw
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If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
– Jerry Falwell
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If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.
– Jamie Moyer
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If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
– Gloria Swanson
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If you try to do your best there is no failure.
– Mike Farrell
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
– Zig Ziglar
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If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
– Bryan Cranston
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If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!
– Betty White
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If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.
– Ruben Hinojosa
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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
– Robert H. Schuller
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If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
– Carter G. Woodson
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If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
– Yann Martel
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
– Doug Coupland
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If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.
– John Larroquette
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
– P. J. O'Rourke
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I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
– Mike Krzyzewski
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I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
– Bryce Dallas Howard
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I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
– Peter Berg
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I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.
– Gordon Ramsay
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I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.
– Scott Brown
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I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.
– Toby Young
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
– Malcolm Mclaren
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I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.
– Steven Soderbergh
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I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.
– Anna Quindlen
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I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
– Heston Blumenthal
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I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
– Leann Rimes
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I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.
– Paul Feig
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I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.
– Ron Perlman
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