“I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.”
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“We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.”
“I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.”
“I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.”
“African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.”
“The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.”
“The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.”
“America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.”
“We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.”
“There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.”
“The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.”
“I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.”
“I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.”
“He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.”
“Success is 99 percent failure.”
“If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.”
“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.”
“The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.”
“Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.”
“In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.”
“I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.”
“When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.”
“Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.”
“Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.”