You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
There’s no path to being a writer that’s applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum. For me, it was important to have some sense that my failures weren’t unique.
Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you’d have no one left on the grid.
An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country faith that its better days are ahead. That’s been reason enough to discount his limitations and remain enamored of his presidential performance.
I’ve had more failures than I’ve had success, but I’m not afraid to fail.
I’ve had many failures in terms of technological… business… and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster.
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.
I’ve failed at more things than anyone I know. No one remembers the failures.
During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.
Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue – and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
I hate people feeling like failures, I hate it because no one’s a failure.
The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
You have to be willing to have failures along the way.
In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.
After several different marriages and failures, my mom started turning to the Lord. So she brought us to church. We got involved with the youth programs, and I got on fire a couple months in, like, ‘Wow, this feels good.’ At 10 years old, you don’t know. It felt good.
I may not believe in long-drawn rituals but I believe in a supernatural force that gives me strength. This can take the form of my mum, my father, my husband or my failures.
‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ and ‘Used Cars’ were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it’s not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.
Even though some of the films I’ve made haven’t been particularly commercial, I don’t find them failures.
A long and productive career in the world of films is bound to be checkered with success and failures. You cannot have one without the other; the only way not to make a flop is not to make a film.
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
That’s one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual – accountable to Americans – is responsible for its successes and failures.
Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can’t have any big failures. I’ve always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn’t know what that meant.
Even failures can turn into something positive if you just keep going. I wrote a television pilot called ‘Head of the Family.’ CBS didn’t want it. It was considered a failure. But we reworked it. A year later, it became ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show.’
Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don’t choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.
We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
I’ve never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I’m a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.
Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have tapped into a legitimate anger about the failures of Washington, but instead of running a campaign built on a positive vision for overcoming these failures, Donald Trump has conducted a polarizing and divisive campaign.
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.
You put some things out there. Some work, some don’t, and then one really takes off, and that pays for your failures. Then you go on to the next one.
I don’t remember all my successes, but I do remember failures.
You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.
No one talks about the epic failures that we all have.
It’s not about the failure, it’s about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve… But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I’ve had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam… and I’m not happy to be right in all of those cases.
If the idea behind Obamacare was to get everyone covered, that’s one of the many failures.
I was never carried away by success and have learnt from the failures. Satisfaction is what I crave for; fame and wealth are just by-products.
While we talk about successes, I think it’s also important to talk about all the failures. Like, for every Netflix special, there’s things that don’t work.
Your goal as an entrepreneur is to understand not only what your business does but the clients that it serves. If you really have your pulse on their needs and wants, then your ‘absolute’ failures are always going to have limits.
The failures and successes are necessary for learning.
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I’m realistic about the success I’m having and how quickly it can go away. What’s important is to be smart about it.
The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I’m vulnerable to comparisons.
I’m simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
