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I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

~Brett Favre

Topics: Failure Feel Football Football Player Like May Player Successful I Feel I Feel Like

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

~Brett Ratner

Topics: Because Conscious Failure Fearless Go Less More Risks Take Wrong You

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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Apply Criteria Entering Failure Implications Involves Nature Necessarily Only Prevailing Questioning Scarcely Sense Spaces Specifically Success Technical Where

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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Actual Art Becomes Beyond Boundaries Breaking Even Experimentation Failure Limit Mere Point Preoccupied Seem Transgression Which Work Would

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I find rejection or failure to be a really interesting and valuable experience.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Experience Failure Find Interesting Really Rejection Valuable

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The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

~Brian Harris

Topics: Caused Creators Demand Encouraging Failure Higher Higher Level Less Level Our Own Produce Product Since Socialism Strikes Through Us Wealth Whilst

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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

Topics: About Always Caring Did Discovered Failure Lifetime Like Not Caring People Sing Then Thing Try Wanted Well Who You

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I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

~Brooke Shields

Topics: Anything Appreciative Because Become Believe Chaos Even Failure Falling Few Happened Just Just Because Me Nature Over Parents Past Past Few Years Perfectionist Seen Short Something Those Thought Would Years Zen

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In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.

~Bruce Forsyth

Topics: Break Cope Damage Days Died Emotional Experience Failure Had Hence How Instant Learned Like Make Me Nights Old Old Days Potential Really Simply Stage Tears Them Time Today Turns Variety Youngsters

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The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

~Bruno Bettelheim

Topics: Advice Books Children Desire Failure Fear Great How Led Library No Wonder Offering Raise Right Them Whole Wonder

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