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" I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.' "

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" Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure. "

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" Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure. "

" With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. "

" Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success. "

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

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" I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done. "

" Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking. "

" When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure. "

" Don't come home a failure. "

" Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster. "

" Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. "

" Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding. "

" We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success. "

" Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. "

" I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again. "

" There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. "

" The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads. "

" When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people? "

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

" Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they're a failure as a parent or, you know, they're embarrassed for their child or they want to protect their child, lots of very good reasons, but mental health, I feel, is something that you have to talk about. "

" Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away. "

" The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense. "

" I get this thing where people are like, 'Man, you got to tell me what to do' - like I have a cheat code to being successful. It's hard work; it's trial and error. I failed, but I never let failure get to my head or to my heart. "

" If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success. "

" All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats. "

" Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes. "

" We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying. "

" An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is. "

" I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. "

" An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. "