Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
My reputation grows with every failure.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father w...
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
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.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failur...
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.
And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.
