#failure

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#actually #assume #audience #because #become

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#effects #failures #frustrating #ineffectual #largely

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#failure #meaningless #possibility #then #victory

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#everyone #failure #option #succeed

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#failures #level #personal #personal level #politically

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