Quotes for Failure

Being an actor, in my case, any failure or success is extremely visible to a whole nation of movie-watchers.

Akshaye Khanna

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

Brett Ratner

Some would argue the opposite: that with better pitches you should be able to express yourself, a bit like Kevin Pietersen does. Looking back, I wish I had been a bit more like that. But I always had a fear of failure, a fear of getting out, so I tried to eliminate risk from my game.

Nasser Hussain

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

Henry Paulson

An AIG failure would have been devastating to the financial system and to the economy.

Henry Paulson

Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history.

Mario Vargas Llosa

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

Amy Sedaris

Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.

Robert J. Shiller

Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the government to make the tax system more progressive, to impose punishing taxes on the rich, in order to give the money to them. Redistribution feels demeaning. It feels like being labeled a failure.

Robert J. Shiller

This game is a game of failure, and you're going to fail a heck of a lot more than you succeed in it.

Alex Bregman

I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.

Brian Tyree Henry

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Al Gore

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

Edwin Catmull

I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do.

Edwin Catmull

Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards from areas of prosperity and employment.

Chris Grayling

We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.

Chris Grayling

The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.

Chris Grayling

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

Sue Townsend

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

Gus Grissom