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" The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. "

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" If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. "

" Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best. "

Suki Waterhouse

" I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure. "

" The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs. "

" Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. "

" No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. "

" The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. "

" Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. "

" When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. "

Felicity Kendal

" You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure. "

" All war represents a failure of diplomacy. "

" Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable. "

" The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. "

" 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. "

" Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager. "

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

" Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. "

" There's a lot of freedom in failure, and I can see that now. "

" I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure. "

" Without failure there is no achievement. "

John C. Maxwell

" In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

" Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. "

" I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc. "

" Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure. "

" The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. "

" Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure. "

" My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. "