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" Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something - and the film was a failure. "

Sidney Buchman

Famous

Film

Everything

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" Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it. "

" Capra always wanted a screenwriter with him, even on the soundstage. The writer had to be there at his side. "

" Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. "

" 'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure. "

" It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. "

" At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. "

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

" Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest. "

" YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed. "

" Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure. "

" Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake. "

" There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure. "

" If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them. "

" Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. "

" Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. "

" Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education. "

" Failure has gone to his head. "

" One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. "

" In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront. "

" People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily. "

" When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong. "

" Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. "

" If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices. "

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" Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure. "

" Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure. "

" Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop. "

" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "

" The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.' "

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