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" People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most. "

Russell Simmons

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" 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. "

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" I always try to balance life by thinking failure of any kind, be it relationship or any project, should not affect me as an individual. "

" You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. "

" When you accept that failure is a good thing, it can actually be a huge propeller toward success. "

" 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.' "

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" If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That's why legislation and regulations are necessary. "

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" A minute's success pays the failure of years. "

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" It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea. "

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" I'm born into the cycle of giving that we're all born into, and I recognize it. So just because something is a good business, I'm not a business guy. I'm a creative guy. "

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" Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. "

" I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. "

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" I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. "

" The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. "

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" I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more. "

" The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success. "

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" 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. "

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" Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce. "

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" The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. "

" How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There's never a moment where we say, 'OK, well, prison hasn't worked, so we're not going to try that again.' "

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" The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. "

" I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure. "

" Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. "

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" So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.' "

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