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" Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. "

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" I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure. "

" Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. "

Sumner Redstone

" Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "

" I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. "

Tennessee Williams

" Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. "

" There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. "

" Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it. "

Chiang Kai-shek

" It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. "

" It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. "

Charles Kettering

" The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. "

" The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life. "

James R. Clapper

" Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure. "

" My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. "

" We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. "

Amos Bronson Alcott

" The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. "

" I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed. "

Heston Blumenthal

" 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. "

" I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. "

" I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure. "

" You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. "

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

" If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises. "

" Every failure is a step to success. "

William Whewell

" Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure. "

Stanley A. McChrystal

" Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up. "

" It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there. "

" They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? "

" Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure. "