#failures

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures. ↗

— Ben Affleck

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After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

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I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

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For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

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The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

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It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. ↗

— Charles Kettering

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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world. ↗

— Carl Levin

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