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" For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment. "

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" We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system. "

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" Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively. "

" What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? "

" Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. "

" Don't come home a failure. "

" Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy. "

" Our country's got a sin problem, and I believe if these politicians in Washington would recognize the moral failure of so many of their policies that maybe we could fix it. "

" 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. "

" Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. "

" There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul; the real question is what comes afterward. Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve the squabbling likely to arise over numerous issues and bring lasting stability to one of Iraq's most diverse and challenging provinces? Failure to do so could lead to ISIS 3.0. "

" Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something. "

" Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. "

" Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. "

" Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail. "

" Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood. "

" Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress. "

" President Obama's greatest failure is his failure regarding foreign policy and national security. "

" When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human. "

" When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. "

" How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. "

" At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. "

" The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.' "

" A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. "

" One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. "

" I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do. "

" Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. "

" Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk. "

" Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. "

" Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. "

" When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go. "