Pastoral Resources

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.