#failure

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

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comprehending #deepest #failures #fiction #fiction writer

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#early #failure #i #i think #think

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

— Amy Sedaris

#biggest #biggest problem #failed #failure #feel

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#failures #i #more #nine #observed

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#address #benefits #breakdown #debt #difficulty

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#away #beliefs #bind #conservatism #conservatives

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#anxiety #avoid #failures #fire #great

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#any #anyone #credit #done #failure

Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#engineer #failure #most #performed #results