#lures

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#age #away #early #early age #enough

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#i #like #matter #mean #much

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. ↗

— Richard Rosen

#anything #characterizes #communication #cultural #failures

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#dream #failures #forgiven #life #people

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures. ↗

— Belinda Jeffrey

#complicated #fabric #failures #family-tree #hurts

I was always useless at flirting, and simply did not know what needed to be done in order to snare my target... I always ended up resorting to jokes, and most men don't like funny women. They like to do the jokes. ↗

— Joan Sims

#flirting #romantic-failures #womanly-wiles #men

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen. ↗

— Keren Ann

#bound #even #experiences #failures #happen

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#evolved #failures #into #process #ratio

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#climb #failures #finding #heaven #most

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#discoveries #failures #important #me #most