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Its not about failure its about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. – Carol Alt

Definitely, its a fear of failure that drives me. – Jerry Bruckheimer

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think Im a failure. – William Hurt

What weve got here is a failure to communicate. – Donn Pearce

So nevertheless, what Im saying is that what one is – ones parameters are constantly narrowed by ones success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure. – Jeremy Irons

Im very comfortable with failure. Im very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people. – Steven Soderbergh

I dont need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform. – Darrell Issa

I think its one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because theres so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. – Garry Shandling

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if youre not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are. – Peter Guber

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, theres the opportunity seeds of great success. Theyre not miles apart. So if theyre that close together, and if youre really working, youre always gonna have that likelihood that somethings not going to work. – Peter Guber

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 – its so boring. – Tom Baker

Id like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse. – Susie Orbach

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing Ive ever done. Once I was married, I didnt want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long. – Shannen Doherty

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, its just really another kind of tangential thing in his life. – Thomas Haden Church

But all actors go through the process, its hit and miss, you have achievement and failure. – Thomas Haden Church

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obamas extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama. – David Limbaugh

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of governments failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place. – Russell Pearce

You cant be afraid of failure and you cant be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. – Dave Van Ronk

Ive had great success and Ive had catastrophic failure. Its really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think. – Peter Berg

I think theres something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real. – China Mieville