When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd ...
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical c...
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our natio...
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?
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.
My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
Golf is a game of endless failure and frustration.
I think to visualize failure as you're starting off is really a bad thing to do.
People never confess to failure. They should.
Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Failure is a word unknown to me.
Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.
Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.
