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Bryce Dallas Howard on failure
Author: Bryce Dallas Howard“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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John Hersey on failure
Author: John Hersey“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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Hart Crane on failure
Author: Hart Crane“The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.” -Hart Crane
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Gavyn Davies on failure
Author: Gavyn Davies“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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Thomas Babington Macaulay on failure
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay“American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.” -Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Margaret Drabble on failure
Author: Margaret Drabble“Nothing fails like failure.” -Margaret Drabble
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Roger von Oech on failure
Author: Roger von Oech“Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.” -Roger von Oech
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Maude Adams on failure
Author: Maude Adams“When I was about 15… I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.” -Maude Adams
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Alice James on failure
Author: Alice James“The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.” -Alice James
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Elisabetta Canalis on failure
Author: Elisabetta Canalis“At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.” -Elisabetta Canalis
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Carol Gilligan on failure
Author: Carol Gilligan“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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Daniel Inouye on failure
Author: Daniel Inouye“Mr. Gonzales’ failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.” -Daniel Inouye
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Henry Knox on failure
Author: Henry Knox“Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.” -Henry Knox
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John Larroquette on failure
Author: John Larroquette“If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you’re not really successful.” -John Larroquette
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John Poindexter on failure
Author: John Poindexter“You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don’t get failures, you’re not pushing hard enough on the objectives.” -John Poindexter
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Jon Corzine on failure
Author: Jon Corzine“It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress’s failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.” -Jon Corzine
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John Mortimer on failure
Author: John Mortimer“There is always time for failure.” -John Mortimer
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Emanuel Steward on failure
Author: Emanuel Steward“I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.” -Emanuel Steward
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Felicity Kendal on failure
Author: Felicity Kendal“Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.” -Felicity Kendal
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Cory Lidle on failure
Author: Cory Lidle“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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James M. Baldwin on failure
Author: James M. Baldwin“Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.” -James M. Baldwin
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Matt Blunt on failure
Author: Matt Blunt“Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.” -Matt Blunt
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Lev Yilmaz on failure
Author: Lev Yilmaz“Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it’s slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character’s sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That’s a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it’s true.”
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Gerry Beckley on failure
Author: Gerry Beckley“I know acts and I’m not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it’s considered a failure and they’re dropped and that’s really a shame.” -Gerry Beckley