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"That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere."

Sting on Failure

More quotes about Failure

  • "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

    Theodore Roosevelt on Failure

  • "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

    Michael Jordan on Failure

  • "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

    Calvin Coolidge on Failure

  • "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

    Abraham Lincoln on Failure

  • "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

    Steve Jobs on Failure

More quotes by Sting

  • "I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children."

  • "I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should."

  • "I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back."

  • "The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment."

  • "I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them."

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