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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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" The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school. "

Jon Meacham

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Prayer

Failure

" America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love. "

" To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. "

" Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure. "

" For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment. "

Jason Silva

Moment

Time

" Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring. "

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

" Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. "

" I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative. "

" Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption. "

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

" I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. "

" As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? "

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

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

" Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. "

" Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions. "

John Ortberg

Who

Pilot

" I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win. "

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

" The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. "

" Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. "

" Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain. "

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Failure

Building

Time

" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "

" Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure. "

" I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. "

" No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. "

" Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. "

" Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction. "

" However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evil

Success

Things

" Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you. "