You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. Dave Van Ronk afraidfailuresuccess Change image and share on social
Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure. Bobbie Ann Mason anxietycropfailure Change image and share on social
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess. Tullian Tchividjian attainbelievechrist share on social
Failure's inevitable. It happens all the time in a complex economy. And how did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us, computers and cell phones and so on? Well, the process was trial and error. There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered, and the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out. Tim Harford amazebadbunch share on social
Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy. Tim Harford complexeconomyfailure Change image and share on social
You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side. Beau Willimon attemptbangfailure share on social
When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. Moby bigcarterconcert share on social
Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since. Nick Frost carryfailurefelt Change image and share on social
It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it. Nick Nolte experiencefailuregrow Change image and share on social
The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector. Mike Pompeo energyfailurefederal Change image and share on social