If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.
I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
He who leaves the game wins it.
People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.
Nothing recedes like progress.
I always win, I'm cursed to win.
The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.
The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
I've only had success when I'm not trying to. It's that weird thing where if you're trying to impress a girl, you're not going to impress her. But if you aren't trying to impress a girl, you'll probably impress her because you're not trying.
Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.
evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
I don't get nominated, and I have to say, I've probably gotten the greatest mass of press in my life through not getting nominated. It's definitely been a winning situation as far as I'm concerned.
My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing the example of Candlebox and their paradoxical influence on culture.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
