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" I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. "

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" You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.' "

Florence Scovel Shinn

" Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk. "

Brennan Manning

" Coding, it's an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place, with sometimes just a semicolon making the difference between success and failure. Code breaks and then it falls apart, and it often takes many, many tries until that magical moment when what you're trying to build comes to life. "

" Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family. "

" The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years. "

" Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes. "

" I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital. "

" When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward. "

" I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. "

" It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. "

Charlotte Whitton

" There's a lot of freedom in failure, and I can see that now. "

" It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure. "

" Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with. "

" M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say. "

" You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood. "

Gabrielle Union

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

" Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. "

" The only real failure is giving up. "

" In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. "

" To err is human, but it feels divine. "

To Err Is Human

" The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape. "

" The hippy movement was a failure. "

" What we perceive as a failure may simply be our inner being's way of telling us that we are ready to move to a new level of growth. "

Anne Wilson Schaef

" It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. "

" The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. "

" Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden. "

" 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

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

Zbigniew Brzezinski

" If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. "

" Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. "