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" Mistakes are the portals of discovery. "

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" At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success. "

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" When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment's notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again. "

" Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure. "

Sylvester Stallone

" Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. "

" Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. "

Rickey Henderson

" 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. "

" If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. "

" People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong. "

" Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. "

Abraham Joshua Heschel

" Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will. "

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

" Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure. "

" I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. "

" Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure. "

" 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. "

Sebastian Thrun

" If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. "

Thomas J. Watson

" Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. "

" The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. "

" Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living. "

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

" Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. "

" I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head. "

Malcolm Mclaren

" 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. "

" We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. "

" As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success. "

" If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. "

" This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in 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. "

" Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. "

Lincoln Steffens

" The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure. "

" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "

Steven Spielberg