“Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.”
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“Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”
“Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.”
“Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.”
“The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.”
“Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.”
“If you try to do your best there is no failure.”
“What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?”
“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
“My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.”
“There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.”
“It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.”
“I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.”
“I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.”
“My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.”
“Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.”
“Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.”
“I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.”
“So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.”
“The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”
“Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.”
“The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.”
“I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.”
“We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.”