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• A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Failure

• I know acts and I’m not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it’s considered a failure and they’re dropped and that’s really a shame.

  Gerry Beckley

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Musician

• I mean, I love L.A. – I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It’s a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don’t do that every time, then you’re considered a failure.

  Kristen Stewart

  Topics in Failure, Love

  Tags in Time, Considered

• I mean, I love L.A. – I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It’s a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don’t do that every time, then you’re considered a failure. But it’s like, ‘Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?’

  Kristen Stewart

  Topics in Failure, Love

  Tags in Time, Learn, Wish, Successful

• 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.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Topics in Failure
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  Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

  Confucius

  Topics in Failure, Success

  Tags in Preparation, Previous, Sure, Depends
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  The only failure is not to try.

  George Clooney

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Try

• All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

  Tony Benn

  Topics in Failure

• So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

  Suze Orman

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Dreams

• Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

  Andrew Grove

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Paranoid

• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

  Fidel Castro

  Topics in Failure, Success

  Tags in Socialism

• Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

  Felicity Kendal

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Period

• Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Marriage, Difficult

• Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Topics in Failure, Success

• Failure is impossible.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Topics in Failure

• Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

  Sumner Redstone

  Topics in Failure, Success

• That sense of failure, I don’t know where people put it who don’t write songs and aren’t able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

  Sting

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in People

• I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

  George S. Patton

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Self

• I’m very comfortable with failure. I’m very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Topics in Failure

• The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you’ve got playing the leads.

  Steven Moffat

  Topics in Failure