#lure

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? ↗

— Fidel Castro

#africa #america #asia #capitalism #failure

It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#failure #fly #our #pants #seat

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#believe #compensate #deal #failure #faith

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#embrace #failures #figure #gonna #great

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#failure #high #like #people #rate

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#failures #god #making #mistake #must

I had thought in those years, I suppose, having learned the lesson from my mother well, that it was foolish to ask for too much out of life, afterwards only to live in the wake of that expectation, an irreducible disappointment. But what pain, I thought now, could be greater than to realize that even the practical reality for which you had assumed to settle upon, did not hold – that even that was illusory? Would it not be better, then, to set your sights on some more fantastic and rare dream from which even in failing you might take some comfort in having once aspired? ↗

— Johanna Skibsrud

#dreams

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. ↗

— John Keats

#great #hell #object #than

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#continue #counts #courage #failure #fatal