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I can not say I am not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it is not true. I am 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.

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an A pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that is not how it works.

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

Schools do not really allow failure and yet it is a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

My Brat Pack buddies and I did not exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

With failure, you just try again.

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there is so much shame around it. If you have it you are a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

When you are fearless, you take more risks because you are less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.