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" I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "

T. Boone Pickens

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" You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. "

" Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers. "

" What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. "

Andrew Lloyd Webber

" We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. "

Amos Bronson Alcott

" I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. "

" Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood. "

" Success unshared is failure. "

John Paul DeJoria

" One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it's in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life. "

" Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. "

" I love language, and I love the failure of language. "

" Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution. "

" There's no right or wrong, success or failure. "

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

" Not failure, but low aim, is crime. "

James Russell Lowell

" My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success. "

" I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. "

" Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure. "

Robert J. Shiller

" The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. "

" The only real failure is giving up. "

" Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it. "

Chiang Kai-shek

" When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. "

" Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? "

Chester W. Nimitz

" A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. "

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

" Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. "

" You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good. "

" Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. "

" Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. "