"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."

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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."

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"Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence."

"The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure."

"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."

"This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy."

"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

"Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."

"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

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"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative."

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