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As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
Charlie Sheen
Tags: Failure You How
I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
Aaron Sorkin
Tags: Failure More Had
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill
Tags: Men Failure Life
I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.
Akshay Kumar
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
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Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.


Richard Branson
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.


Max Beerbohm
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.


James Dyson
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George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.
Marc Rich
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
Aamir Khan
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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Michael Korda
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
Kevin Bacon
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.
Giacomo Casanova
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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.


Anton Chekhov
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The documentaries I made were never normal documentaries. They were about subjects I was obsessed with, and I suppose I thought I could sculpt them. What I think I do with my fiction is the same.
Pawel Pawlikowski
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
Charles Hamilton Houston
Tags: Time Men War
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George Allen, Sr.
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Gordon Moore
Tags: Failure You Want
My advice has always been to study the craft of acting if you want to be an actor. There are many great schools that teach acting. NYU being one of them.
Peter Facinelli
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I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.


Stellan Skarsgard
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