Failure too is a form of death.
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
War remains the decisive human failure.
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.