3 December 2020 Melissa Rosenberg 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.
3 December 2020 S. I. Hayakawa Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
3 December 2020 Roger von Oech Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
3 December 2020 LeAnn Rimes I’m living life as best I can – but I’m not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Schlafly Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
3 December 2020 Charlotte Whitton It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
3 December 2020 John Dewey Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
3 December 2020 Greil Marcus 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.
3 December 2020 William Empson Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
3 December 2020 Cate Blanchett I don’t understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
3 December 2020 Toni Cade Bambara The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
3 December 2020 Gloria Swanson If you’re 40 years old and you’ve never had a failure, you’ve been deprived.
3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
3 December 2020 Hector Berlioz At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
3 December 2020 Charles M. Schwab I have probably purchased fifty ‘hot tips’ in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
3 December 2020 Ruben Hinojosa 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.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
3 December 2020 Alan Rickman I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
3 December 2020 Montgomery Clift Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
3 December 2020 Gordon Parks At first I wasn’t sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
3 December 2020 Denis Waitley To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
3 December 2020 Brian Harris The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.
3 December 2020 Hugh Grant The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
