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Failure

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. – Christian Marclay

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. – Rosalyn S. Yalow

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product. – Brian Harris

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. – Sheila Jackson Lee

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities. – Justin Guarini

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure. – Corey Hart

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high. – John P. Kotter

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success. – Tom Kite

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember – that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. – Robert E. Howard

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure. – Jim Dale

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure. – Anna Neagle

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure. – Hans Eysenck

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success – or failure. – Arthur C. Brooks

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. – Koichi Tanaka

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan. – Shinzo Abe

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. – Mark Edwards

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure. – Matt Blunt

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. – James M. Baldwin

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period. – Felicity Kendal

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure. – Emanuel Steward