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" The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. "

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" For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. "

" Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society. "

Robert J. Shiller

" The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. "

Robert H. Schuller

" I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure. "

" Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. "

" Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers. "

" Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. "

" To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. "

James Lane Allen

" I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do. "

" The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line. "

" Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. "

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

" My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing. "

" Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? "

Chester W. Nimitz

" Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. "

" Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets. "

" What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root. "

Tullian Tchividjian

" I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being. "

" While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable. "

" Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. "

Douglas Coupland

" You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good. "

" Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something. "

" I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. "

" Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him. "

" At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself. "

" I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. "

" From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. "

" If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. "