Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves.
Dan Marino never won the big game. Does that mean his career is a failure? No, not at all.
Formal declarations of mistrust, pre-nups are emotionally unfortunate. They overtly plan for failure, and thus involve a jarring cognitive dissonance.
With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others’ perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don’t know if I’m the monarch of all I survey.
After the failure in ‘92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
I’ve always believed that it’s important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
I lost my father. He had diabetes and high BP and so he died of kidney failure.
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Our country’s got a sin problem, and I believe if these politicians in Washington would recognize the moral failure of so many of their policies that maybe we could fix it.
Don’t come home a failure.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
Now I have normal-person fears – fears of failure, of not being smart enough or strong enough or kind enough.
Young professionals shouldn’t have to let a fear of failure hold them back; they should feel emboldened to take on challenges in creative ways.
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
It feels bad when a film doesn’t work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure – they make me work harder.
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
In my memoir, I admit that I’ve been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when ‘Passages’ was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
I feel, in the end, as if everything I’ve done has been a failure.
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer – the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.
Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure.
