#lure

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#actually #assume #audience #because #become

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#better #coach #failure #first #had

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#connect #failing #failure #final #i

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#also #basketball #contribution #examples #failure

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. ↗

— Herbert Bayard Swope

#everybody #failure #formula #give #i

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

I believe only in art and failure. ↗

— Jane Rule

#believe #failure #i #i believe #only

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

#comprehending #deepest #failures #fiction #fiction writer

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure. ↗

— Herbert Samuel

#make #marriage #only #success #takes

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗