failure

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

You must become a free man so that you have __idik Paningal; Java_ (lucidity and precision of sight). Later, you achieve the peak of detachment of sight (Ma__ifat), where you see something to the horizon with great clarity. Do not take another step before you are certain that the path you take is the right one. Failure is another matter; what matters is precision.

The only way to avoid failure is to sit in a corner and do nothing.

An event in which you did not achieve your desired outcome (definition of failure).

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.

Rwanda will never ever leave me. It's in the pores of my body. My soul is in those hills, my spirit is with the spirits of all those people who were slaughtered and killed that I know of, and many that I didn't know. _ Fifty to sixty thousand people walking in the rain and the mud to escape being killed, and seeing a person there beside the road dying. We saw lots of them dying. And lots of those eyes still haunt me, angry eyes or innocent eyes, no laughing eyes. But the worst eyes that haunt me are the eyes of those people who were totally bewildered. They're looking at me with my blue beret and they're saying, "What in the hell happened? We were moving towards peace. You were there as the guarantor" -- their interpretation -- "of the mandate. How come I'm dying here?" Those eyes dominated and they're absolutely right. How come I failed? How come my mission failed? How come as the commander who has the total responsibility-- We learn that, it's ingrained in us, because when we take responsibility it means the responsibility of life and death, of humans that we love.

Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you__e failed at something. If someone is better than you at something, then it__ likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it__ likely because he hasn__ been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.

And failure, if you want to know, Dakota, is just another opportunity to try again.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there__ a simple solution, and it__ wrong.

___Susan poured herself out some more wine. She said:___"You're nice. You must come and see me some time. I live miles away from anywhere with my father. You'll like him."___"Tell me about him."___"He's a curious little man with a walrus moustache."___"What does he do?"___"He's a failure."___"Where does he fail?"___"Oh, he doesn't any longer," she said. "He's a retired failure, you see. You must meet him."___"I'd like to.

Because when you give too many fucks__hen you give a fuck about everyone and everything__ou will feel that you__e perpetually entitled to be comfortable and happy at all times, that everything is supposed to be just exactly the fucking way you want it to be. This is a sickness. And it will eat you alive. You will see every adversity as an injustice, every challenge as a failure, every inconvenience as a personal slight, every disagreement as a betrayal.

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

Failure is another emotion I cannot stand to feel, because in adult life I have conditioned myself not to fail at anything. Failure takes me straight back to the feelings of worthlessness I grew up with as a stammering, reclusive little boy.

Because in a small dark room, a broken child lies on a filthy bed and stares up at a high window. He waits for me, too.And I__ who have failed at everything and have failed everyone__ must not, I cannot, I will not fail him.

Nor should failure be considered a total loss.