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" Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. "

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" Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. "

" The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their 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. "

" Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems. "

" I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger. "

" The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. "

Benjamin E. Mays

" When you fail, things get real. In fact, they get real real. If your success was a high profile success, then your failure will be a high profile failure. Opportunities and 'friendships' will evaporate. Failure shines a bright light on all relationships. The ones that last are pure and true, which is a true gift. "

Julie Wainwright

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

" Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. "

Winston Churchill

" As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. "

" I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. "

Albert Einstein

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

Zbigniew Brzezinski

" True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people. "

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

" Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. "

Montgomery Clift

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

" We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. "

Amos Bronson Alcott

" I feel as if I've been so inured to failure, because I fail more than I succeed. As with any kind of fiction, I throw out so many pages; I get rejected so many times. "

" There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. "

" The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. "

James A. Baldwin

" 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. "

" Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. "

" My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year. "

" You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. "

" People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong. "

" Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" 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. "

" Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. "

" A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. "