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So nevertheless, what I am saying is that what one is - one parameters are constantly narrowed by one success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I am very comfortable with failure. I am very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

I do not need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

I think it is one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there is so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you are not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there is the opportunity seeds of great success. They are not miles apart. So if they are that close together, and if you are really working, you are always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it is so boring.

I do like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I have ever done. Once I was married, I did not want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it is just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

But all actors go through the process, it is hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.