Quotes About Constant Failure

#1. I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#2. Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

Miguel Syjuco

#3. To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#4. I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

Alexander Payne

#5. It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

Michael Haneke

#6. There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Victor Hugo

#7. Whether or not there was room in her life for Tamani, Laurel knew that there was precious little room in Tamani's life for anything but Laurel. He lived to protect her, and he'd never failed her. Annoyed her, frustrated her, hurt her, maddened her - but never once failed her.

Aprilynne Pike

#8. Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.

Jacques Chirac

#9. Shuddered out a long breath. She'd gone all the way down Weird Street and made a hard left onto Crazytrain Avenue.

Laura Kaye

#10. The temptation to spend money increases as a person's opportunities increase.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for, like, a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.

Steve Buscemi

#12. The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.

Oliver Burkeman

#13. You want to believe there are limits to what money can make happen, lines it can't cross.

Zadie Smith

#14. To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

M. Thomas Gammarino

#15. I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Richard Pryor

#16. I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns.

George Galloway

#17. Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#18. The only species of human beings that are immune to failure are those that are dead and gone. Failure is constant; just prepare to deal with it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#19. The constant desire to win is a very American kind of trouble. Less glamorous gains made along the way--learning, wisdom, growth, and confidence, dealing with failure--aren't given the same respect because they can't be given a grade.

William Zinsser

#20. I think it's fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we're unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we're witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

Scott Lynch

#21. Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
[1967 interview]

Ray Bradbury

#23. I just never stopped believing that what I wanted could be real.

Susane Colasanti