684 private quotes tagged failure

“This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.” — Michael Korda

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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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“Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.” — Jerry Bruckheimer

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“The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.” — Michael Mandelbaum

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“Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.” — Morton Hunt

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“The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.” — Ben Stiller

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“No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.” — Greil Marcus

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“The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.” — Neal Boortz

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“The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.” — Carroll Quigley

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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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“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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“Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.” — William Hurt

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“We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.” — Timothy Geithner

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“Failure is unfortunately as common as success.” — Sanjay Kumar

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“You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.” — Jerome Lawrence

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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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“So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.” — Jeremy Irons

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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'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.” — Steven Soderbergh

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“As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.” — Jimmy Carr

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“Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.” — Theodor Herzl

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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 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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“Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.” — Adam Schiff

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“The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.” — Sydney Pollack

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