We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
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.
The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.
Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
There were times in 'Adaptation' during the editing where I really thought, 'Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.'
It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
