Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.
What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood.
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
Barack Obama was first elected after a period of profound failure by elite and government institutions, from finance to foreign policy to Hurricane Katrina, and his first term immediately and unapologetically enacted a flurry of government solutions.
My citizen activism is a direct outgrowth of a classical and fiscally conservative training in economics at Harvard. It is a perspective rooted in one of the most important concepts in economics - the need for government intervention in the presence of a market failure.
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
I love my flops. Look at my life: my failure that broke my heart made me stronger.
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
