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" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "

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" I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it. "

Loudon Wainwright III

" A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try. "

Leonard Mlodinow

" Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. "

" If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. "

" When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. "

" 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. "

" Like anyone, I'm scared of failure. That drives you to work really hard. "

" Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement. "

Florence Scovel Shinn

" A life which does not go into action is a failure. "

Arnold J. Toynbee

" Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding. "

" One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. "

" I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. "

Herbert Bayard Swope

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

" It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned. "

" All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. "

Dorothea Brande

" 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. "

" There is no failure except in no longer trying. "

" I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo! "

" There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be. "

" Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops. "

" 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. "

" I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. "

" How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.' "

James Forman, Jr.

" If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure. "

" We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure. "

" It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. "

" 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

" 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. "

" You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete. "

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

James Russell Lowell