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• Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Watches, Flesh, Film

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• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  William H. Gass

  Patience, Time, Children

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• A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Men, Political, Mind

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• Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

  John Ashbery

  Art, Imagine, Painter

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.

  Clara Barton

  Humble, Humility, Loss

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• It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.

  Steffi Graf

  Hurt, Crowns, Loses

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• Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

  Robert Hewison

  Friends, Running, Pride

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• I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

  Donald Freed

  Dream, Mean, Winning

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• Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Education, Teaching, School

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• Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.

  Michael Lewis

  Girl, Teacher, Attitude

  Michael Lewis (1995). “Shame: The Exposed Self”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet.

  Rory McIlroy

  Balance, Wells, Thrown

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• Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Life, Knowledge, Thinking

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• ...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start.

  Sue Sanders

  Perseverance, Strong, Loss

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• With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

  Sue Sanders

  Business, Waiting, Faces

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• Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Spring, Enthusiasm

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• In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Precious Stones, Ordinary

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• If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Lessons To Be Learned, Doe, Might

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• In truth, it's usually failure, disappointment, and frustration that motivate people to reexamine that which they've taken for granted. It's rare to find big change without significant bad news. ... In that sense, the pain of failure creates the largest opportunities for progress.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Change, Pain, Disappointment

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.229, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Some people spend their lives failing and never notice.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  People, Failing

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• To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

  Seneca the Younger

  Errors, Devil, Humans

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• The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

  Lettie Cowman

  Men, Finishing, Habit

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• To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

  George McGovern

  Military, War, Greatness

  1973 Lecture at Oxford University, 21 Jan.

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• Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

  Armand DiMele

  Self, Sabotage, Can Do

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• What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Success, Fortune, Calamity

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

  Reggie Jackson

  Success, Adversity, Black History

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