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" If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. "
Dan Quayle
Failure
Risk
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" The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. "
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" If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. "
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" Failure is impossible. "
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" Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems. "
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" Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure. "
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" Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. "
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" Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. "
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" My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down. "
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" 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. "
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" Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders. "
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" Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about. "
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" 'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. "
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" The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector. "
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