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" I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc. "

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

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" Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. "

" I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective. "

" When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure. "

" The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure. "

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

" For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. "

" I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices. "

" There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. "

" In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world. "

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" YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed. "

" 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. "

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" Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst. "

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" I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving. "

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