Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
I believe only in art and failure.
We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It’s fertiliser, it’s like living fertiliser, because you’re forced on yourself.
I’m sure there are many more people who can identify with failure and hardship in life than with the success of an Alexander Hamilton or a John D. Rockefeller.
I think I’ve always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can’t miss a deadline; you can’t come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.
Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can’t acquire it if you’re afraid of keeping score.
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective – at best.
It’s about not having doubt in your mind and staying focused and not having any preconceived notion about failure. It’s just looking forward and staying positive.
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
A street full of electric light is a sign of civic failure and is an insulting injury to the soul. Shutting out the night is as disastrous as shutting out the light.
Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group.
People never confess to failure. They should.
The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what’s the worst that can happen?
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Boys with a ‘failure to launch’ are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
I think failure is the best thing for some people. It tells you whether you’re in the right job or the wrong one.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
