- Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
- William Irwin Thompson on Failure
- Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
- Erik Erikson on Failure
- Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
- Serj Tankian on Failure
- Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
- Sarah McLachlan on Failure
- Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
- Gary Ryan Blair on Failure
- Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
- H. G. Wells on Failure
- Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
- Jonathan Raban on Failure
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