“In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.”
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“So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.”
“I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.”
“I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.”
“As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.”
“Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.”
“I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.”
“I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.”
“Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.”
“The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.”
“Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.”
“The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.”
“Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.”
“I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.”
“I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.”
“Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.”
“But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.”
“Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.”
“So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.”
“A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.”
“Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.”
“Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.”
“The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.”
“One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.”