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" You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. "

Sonia Sotomayor

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Sonia Sotomayor

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

" The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure. "

" 'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. "

" I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better. "

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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" My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. "

" I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure. "

" Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure. "

" The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. "

" I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. "

" When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. "

" 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. "

" Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. "

" 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. "

" Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective. "

" Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship. "

" We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying. "

" I'm a polarizing person, so people get caught up in hoping I fail. And just like success, failure is a perspective. "

" Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. "

" 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. "

" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "

" Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. "

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

" Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes. "

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

" He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. "

James Lane Allen

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" All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night. "

" Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity. "

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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