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" I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. "
Thomas A. Edison
Ways
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Work
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" 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.
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Moment
" I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid. "
Newt Gingrich
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" 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
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Work
Failure
" We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. "
Rudyard Kipling
Failure
Forty
Million
" While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable. "
Lewis Howes
Sometimes
Failure
Effort
" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "
Peter Jackson
People
See
Failure
" I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure. "
Howard Schultz
Had
Life
Think
" 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. "
Jason Silva
Moment
Time
Me
" Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it. "
Mia Hamm
Better
Day
Failure
" Failure? Scared to death of it. "
Ryan Seacrest
Failure
Scared
Death
" I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city. "
Aja Brown
Success
Failure
City
" At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it. "
Gordon Parks
Talent
Failure
Fear
" A life which does not go into action is a failure. "
Arnold J. Toynbee
Failure
Does
Action
" Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it. "
Sarah McLachlan
Me
Failure
Myself
" The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line. "
Dylan Moran
Yourself
Think
Failure
" Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking. "
Edwin Markham
Alone
Stand
Spiritual
" The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. "
Francis Picabia
Failure
World
Divided
" The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. "
Michael Korda
Freedom
Failure
You
" Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. "
Jennifer Lawrence
Know
Never
Far
" A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try. "
Leonard Mlodinow
Success
Failure
Next
" Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. "
Felix Dennis
Eat
Alive
Failure
" The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs. "
Henry Petroski
Down
Failure
Future
" Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life. "
Michael Crawford
Success
You
Beginning
" The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. "
David Suzuki
Economic
World
Global Warming
" We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition. "
Edward McKendree Bounds
Heaven
Doing
Prayer
" Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living. "
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Just
Death
Failure
" The wisest of the wise may err. "
Aeschylus
Wise
May
Err
" Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. "
Swami Sivananda
Grief
Future
Failure
" If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up. "
Evel Knievel
Life
Fall
Failure
" No man is a failure who is enjoying life. "
William Feather
Failure
Enjoying
Who