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Failure Quotes and Sayings

Posted on May 20, 2011May 20, 2011 by

If we will learn what failure is, we will know what courage and success are. Now let’s read some wonderful failure quotes.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you’re accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. ~Robert Brault

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? ~G.K. Chesterton

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. ~Thomas Edison

There are defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ~Charles Horton Cooley

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” ~S.I. Hayakawa

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. ~Elbert Hubbard

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ~William Feather

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage. ~George Horace Lorimer

You can’t have any successes unless you can accept failure. ~George Cukor

There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. ~Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air, 1946

You always pass failure on your way to success. ~Mickey Rooney

Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure. ~Kenneth Boudling

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones

What’s your favorite? :D

Fantasy Quotes

Posted on January 8, 2011January 8, 2011 by

– “About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” – Manolo Blahnik

– “Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.” – James Earl Jones

– “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” – Walt Disney

– “All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” – Max Beerbohm

– “All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy.” – Eddie Campbell

– “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” – Carl Jung

– “Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.” – Orlando Bloom

– “Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant H. McGill

– “And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.” – Octavia Butler

– “And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.” – Peter Shaffer

– “Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.” – Godfried Danneels

– “Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.” – Joan D. Vinge

– “But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.” – Fisher Stevens

– “But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.” – Iris Murdoch

– “But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.” – Shelley Duvall

– “But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.” – Elizabeth Moon

– “But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.” – Octavia Butler

– “CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” – Arthur C. Clarke

– “Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.” – Joseph Barbera

– “Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.” – Erika Slezak