Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, ...
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify sec...
I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.
If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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.
The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful...
The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.
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 rec...
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
