Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.
When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
If you try to do your best there is no failure.
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don...
I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.
Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.
I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.
Abortion is the ultimate violence.
a lack of communication is preferable to a profusion of miscommunications.
'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?