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" I often find myself quoting from Victor Hugo after one of my theatrical ventures. 'Now that my play is a failure,' he once said, 'I find I love it all the more.' I first quoted that after 'Square Rounds' at the Olivier in 1992. "

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" Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.' "

George C. Wolfe

Failure

Risks

Questions

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

" Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. "

" I think it's the tendency to want to create gods and monotheistic absolutes and absolute certainties that is the continual temptation in human thought - that's the great danger. Every time we create a god, we diminish humanity. "

" My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. "

" 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

Failure

Myself

" A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light. "

" To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. "

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

" I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find. "

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

" I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer. "

" Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. "

" When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong. "

" I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. "

" My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. "

" For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect. "

Tony Harrison

Poetry

Heart

" Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it. "

" Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. "

" During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds. Surely, enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos. Surely, Occam's razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God. "

" My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. "

" Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.' "

" I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. "

" I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you. "

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

" Success is 99 percent failure. "

" Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success. "

" Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. "

" I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos. "

" Failure is impossible. "

Susan B. Anthony

Impossible

Failure