Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You’re basically saying, ‘I can’t make this other food taste good, so I’ll throw in bacon.’
My roots allow me to let go of the fear of failure.
The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
I am not worried about failure. I have made my career in this industry, so it does not scare me.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I’ve never considered failure.
Innovation demands risk-taking – which, in turn, entails redefining failure, stripping away its power to inhibit.
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.
I always performed out of fear of failure – and that’s a tough way to play. It was as if my back was to the wall and I was constantly surrounded by very dangerous people that were not friendly to me.
Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.
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.
My fears are never about failure – it’s about extreme success.
If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you’re not really successful.
I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don’t want to be called a journalist.
Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
If a process or adaptation seems too smart for nature, that’s a failure of your imagination, not the hand of God. I can make that claim because we have a working model of life’s morphing and molding without it.
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what’s going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It’s something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.
Gawking at one-time celebrities who, for whatever reason, end up performing jobs our culture deems a mark of failure is gross, but hardly a new thing.
