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" I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters. "

Billy Childish

Work

Failure

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" In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option. "

" There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. "

" That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere. "

" Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. "

" In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse. "

" In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure. "

" Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager. "

" The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. "

" Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. "

" America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. "

" Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process. "

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

" No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. "

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" Mistakes are the portals of discovery. "

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" 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. "

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" Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. "

" I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now. "

" I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. "