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- 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.
- Slavoj Zizek on Failure
- I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
- Jonah Hill on Failure
- I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
- James Cash Penney on Failure
- I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
- Andrew Vachss on Failure
- I believe only in art and failure.
- I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
- Michael Jordan on Failure
- I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.
- I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
- Herbert Bayard Swope on Failure
- I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
- Jeremy Irons on Failure
- I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
- I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
- Oprah Winfrey on Failure
- I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
- David Walliams on Failure
- 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.
- Sam Donaldson on Failure
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby on Failure
- I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.
- Darrell Issa on Failure
- I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
- Roger Daltrey on Failure
- I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
- Cate Blanchett on Failure
- I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
- Emma Watson on 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 on Failure
- I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
- Amy Sedaris on Failure
- I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.
- Sara Blakely on Failure
- I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
- Dave Matthews on Failure
- I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
- Natalie Goldberg on Failure
- I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
- Jonathan Kozol on Failure
- I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
- Branch Rickey on Failure
- I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
- Tony Kushner on Failure
- I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
- Alexander Payne on Failure
- I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.
- Tiki Barber on Failure
- I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.
- Elie Tahari on Failure
- I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
- Lucille Ball on Failure
- I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
- Ellen Page on Failure
- I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
- J. Paul Getty on Failure
- I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
- Sylvester Stallone on Failure
- I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
- Michael Buble on Failure
- I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
- Tennessee Williams on Failure
- I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
- T. Boone Pickens on Failure
- I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.
- Shinzo Abe on Failure
- I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
- I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
- Charles M. Schwab on Failure
- I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
- George Burns on Failure
- I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
- Rodney Alexander on Failure
- I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.
- Gerry Beckley on Failure
- I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
- Jerry Saltz on Failure
- I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.
- Michael Koryta on Failure
- I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
- Brett Favre on Failure
- I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.
- Kristen Stewart on Failure
- I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'
- Kristen Stewart on Failure
- I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.
- Shannen Doherty on Failure
- I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
- Tom Hopkins on Failure
- I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
- Mason Cooley on Failure
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