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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure Quotes
What failure costs, and what it sometimes forces.
This page gathers failure quotes on a wide range of subjects: a legal misdemeanor for not filing a form, the long odds behind a legendary TV pilot season, and a blunt wartime statement that failure simply wasn't an option. One entry reflects on a major historical intelligence failure. See Fear for what often sits just behind failure.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Milk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a 90% failure rate for most shows. It's difficult for any show to write for the next season.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of actors do that - they blame their failure on their agents or their photos. But that is just putting off the real issues.
- Easiest Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Game development is very difficult. Nobody sets out to create a game that's not fun. It's all of the challenges and difficulties that happen throughout development that determine whether a game is a failure or a success. I think playing those thousands of games is the single best and easiest way to learn from my predecessors.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
But by reframing the learning process and focusing on the cool end goal, the fear of failure is often taken off the table, and learning just comes more naturally.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020