Well, I think it’s too early to call Fallujah a failure.
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I’m psyched.
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
My father was a dreamer – my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady’s handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: ‘Don’t end up like me.’
I think she’s the foundation of everything I’ve done. I think, definitely, my mother’s fear of failure helps make me more resilient and helps make me persevere.
I signed my first film soon after I graduated from college. So, my real struggle started after my first film didn’t do too well. But I believe failure only makes you stronger.
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear – it was not a fear of not being accepted – was a very violent fear of failure.
There’s no right or wrong, success or failure.
The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
Fear of failure is a great thing. It pushes you past your comfort levels.
If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central bank should not intervene.
‘Catch-22’ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
Pride is ugly. It says, ‘If you succeed, I am a failure.’
Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.
Success is always less funny than failure.
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
We’re all going to experience death and failure and setbacks and disappointments and cancer and, you know, it’s a really difficult world. And for me, God has always – in my relationship with Christ – He’s given me hope and peace.
Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.
Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
I expect either total success or total failure. That’s my lot in life.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
