Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of 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.'
This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.
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.