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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you are not really successful.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Mr. Gonzales failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.

It is a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

I have learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you are a failure or when you are disappointed in yourself.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it is beautiful, it is tough, it is buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It is covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this was not meant to be.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.