Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
Great men have big failures.
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.
Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.
One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.
We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.
I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.
Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past?
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph. D.
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.
I don't lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.