Failure Quotes

I think, in storytelling, people want to see triumph, and so it's usually nice to start with failure and see someone somehow rise above it. People like to see people try. And they like to see people fail for comedy, and they like to see people succeed for the drama and emotion. Nick Kroll
Failure People Comedy Try Rise Above Nice Think Drama See Somehow Rise Someone Triumph Above Emotion Fail Like Want Storytelling Succeed Start
It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it. Nick Nolte
Failure You Experience Nobody Likes Although Really Grow
U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place. Nick Turse
Government Failure First Taxpayer Despite Address Guinea Gulf Corrupt Tens Tens Of Millions Leaders Combat Failures Concerns First Place Enable Dollars Effectively Piracy African Place Confront Agency Who Many Millions
Cisgender actors don't take trans roles out of malice. I think it's just failure to realize the context behind having cisgender people play transgender characters because we don't see the same issue with sexuality. Nicole Maines
Failure People Transgender Think Out Characters Sexuality See Having Take Because Context Issue Malice Roles Same Behind Just Realize Actor Play
When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure. Niecy Nash
Failure Reality Judge Remember Girl Winner First Own Cinderella TV Only Had Most Princess She Importantly Cover Doll Up Brandy Person Survivor American African African-American Grammy Pop Disney Pop Star Many Star Growing Growing Up Play Her Recent
You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed. Niklas Zennstrom
Time Failure You Experience Better Move On Think Project Something Disappointed Fails Learn Get Did Move Afraid Then Next Next Time
One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing. Nina Easton
Government Failure Memories School Car Station Out High High School Vivid Rationing Price Foot Ideas Most Hill California Lines Southern Southern California Controls Lame Street Gas Gas Station Below
My part as an actor ends on the last working day. I think the success or failure only really matters to the producer or whoever it matters to. For me, when I finish the film, I'm done, and if I'm happy, that's that. Nithya Menen
Success Day Me Failure Happy Matters Think Finish Only Part Done Ends Producer Really Working Working Day Whoever Film Actor Last
Oh, man. I love '13 Going on 30,' 'I love Failure to Launch,' I love 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.' Noah Centineo
Love Failure Man Lose Launch Guy Days How Going Oh
I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure. Octavia Spencer
Failure You Yourself Lose Every Setting Tried Restrict Weight Up Diet
All actors should experience public failure. Olivia Wilde
Failure Experience Public Should Actor
When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels. Olly Murs
Success Failure You People Feeling Else Everyone Everyone Else Kind Record More Factor Fail Almost Come Likely Industry Because Off Labels Than Get Artists Want Separate
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. Oriana Fallaci
War Failure Believe Others Negotiations Arafat Something David Him Souls Caused Clinton Camp Sends Pompous Poor Who Mediation Incompetent
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. Orison Swett Marden
Success Best Failure Achievement Endeavor Circumstances Possible Always Persistent Effort Any Often While Honest
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. Orlando Bloom
Success Failure Proportions Mythic Simply Disaster Fiasco
There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise. Ottmar Hitzfeld
Failure You Struggle Fear Opportunity Nervous Become Underdogs Always Surprise Create
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society. Paddy Ashdown
Failure Society Civil Civil Society Institutions Although Greatest Created
Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave. Padgett Powell
Life Christmas Time Failure You Year Unto Were Clock Stops Where Use Your Season Grave
I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones. Paolo Bacigalupi
Work Alone Failure Together Political Problems Our Way Complex Solve Smallest Failing Interested Work Together Even Here
The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson. Parker Conrad
Failure You Lesson Only Never Particular Learned Said Lot Want The Only Thing Sucks Thing
One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure. Parker Conrad
Success Failure Way Visibility Potential Powerful Over Powers Protest Opinion Mobilize Reported Influence Public Public Opinion Media Eventual
The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure. Pat Buchanan
Failure Bay Folly Became Pigs Metaphor
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self. Patanjali
Failure Ignorance Suffering Pure Self Between Bliss Permanent Discriminate Impure
There's no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty. Patrick Stump
Failure You People Money Better Ugly Joke Stupid Think Morally Hack Feel Empty Makes Amount
As quickly as it started, our business model evaporated. But while Traf-O-Data was technically a business failure, the understanding of microprocessors we absorbed was crucial to our future success. Paul Allen
Success Future Failure Business Technically Understanding Our Future Success Crucial Absorb Quickly Model While Business Model Started
Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free. Paul Allen
Failure Business Free Own Local Our Local Governments States Objectively Pick Provide Governments Began Up Speaking Company Right Services Started
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