#failure

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#act #break #command #face #fail

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dexter #dexter-morgan #failure #morgan #pessimism

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#california #came #credentials #dejected #dreams

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection. ↗

— Arthur Bloch

#failure #final #inspection #passed #unit

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. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#arms #bear #being #certain #convinced

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#failure #fiasco #mythic #proportions #simply

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#failure #forgiven #happy #i #less

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure. ↗

— Hans Eysenck

#classed #fails #failure #finish #his

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#cartoon #cartoons #drawing #driving #driving force

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#biggest #biggest problems #bring #failure #feminist