The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.
There were times in ‘Adaptation’ during the editing where I really thought, ‘Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.’
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government’s failure to fix real problems.
We recognise the link between environmental failure and social injustice. When the energy sector is privatised and deregulated, it not only tends to pollute more, it also charges the poorest more per unit!
But all actors go through the process, it’s hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
I think a person’s true worth is measured during times of failure.
The MLS Cup is always the goal. If we don’t win that, it’s always a disappointment and we haven’t won. No matter how well you do in the regular season, it’s always seen as a failure.
The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.
I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.
Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.
We do not become an astronaut because we fear not only the risk of space, but we fear the risk of failure along the way more than we want to put in the work to make it happen – and it is easier not to try.
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.
This game is obviously about failure. You’re going to fail most of the time. It’s how you handle it.
Failure is quite easy to handle because no one is looking at you. Success is difficult to keep and not everyone could handle it.
I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn’t care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward.
My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That’s going to be really, really hard. I’m glad I learned the lesson, ‘Failure is OK.’
I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
How come we never use prison, the failure of prison, as a reason not to give more prison? There’s never a moment where we say, ‘OK, well, prison hasn’t worked, so we’re not going to try that again.’
Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio’s top cop.
If your startup is only in the development or idea stage, there is almost no better predictor of failure – I mean, utter failure, scorched-earth bankruptcy – than raising too much money in the first round.
