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" Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers. "

Ayelet Waldman

Father

Failure

" Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it. "

Sarah McLachlan

Failure

Myself

" He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. "

" For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. "

" Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. "

" Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them. "

" It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure. "

James Taylor

Say

Relationships

" Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share. "

" Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. "

" I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer. "

" Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes. "

" I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. "

" I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.' "

" The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. "

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Aggressive

Enough

Failure

" The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan. "

" Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. "

" While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable. "

" To err is human, but it feels divine. "

" Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me. "

Jerry West

Failure

Tool

" Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. "

" I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends. "

" Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks. "

" Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process. "

" The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly. "

" Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. "

" There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. "

" It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it. "

" The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me. "

Francis Ford Coppola

Live

Television

" Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work. "

" Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. "