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" Failure doesn't exist. It's only a change of direction. "

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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" The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. "

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" I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? "

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" The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. "

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" In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection. "

" Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. "

" Success and failure are equally disastrous. "

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" Not failure, but low aim, is crime. "

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" I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. "

Garry Shandling

" A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. "

" Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. "

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" If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them. "

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" My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down. "

" Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing. "