Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
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.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.
