3 December 2020 Arthur C. Brooks The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success – or failure.
3 December 2020 Dave Matthews I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
3 December 2020 Xavier Becerra Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
3 December 2020 George Eliot The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
3 December 2020 Laurence Housman 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.
3 December 2020 Ron Perlman 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Jordan I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
3 December 2020 Eric Ries Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
3 December 2020 James Cash Penney I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance.
3 December 2020 Susan Sontag Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
3 December 2020 Florence Scovel Shinn You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ‘clicks.’
3 December 2020 Louis C. K. I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at.
3 December 2020 Yann Martel Every book I’ve written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
3 December 2020 Don Johnson People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don’t want to know nothing about you!
3 December 2020 Michael Crawford Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it’s better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
3 December 2020 Serj Tankian Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
3 December 2020 Margaret Drabble Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
3 December 2020 Michael Koryta 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.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it’s a failure.
3 December 2020 Garry Shandling 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.
