Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
~ Henry Petroski
Delivering a successful presentation could mean landing a major new contract, better prices for your services, or getting the funding you need. Failure can mean lost customers and a business that never gets off the ground.
~ Lewis Howes
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
~ André Malraux
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
~ Jay-Z
We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
~ Nick Saban
When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.
~ Karan Mahajan
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.
~ Vivek Wadhwa
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
~ Scott Adams
The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
~ E. O. Wilson
We've all experienced those days when we feel like an absolute failure. It's a normal feeling when things don't go as exactly planned. And, when we feel like that, it's challenging to think of yourself as a successful individual.
~ John Rampton
I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
~ Brett Favre
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin
People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.
~ Donald Trump
You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.
~ Jessica Alba
When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
~ Dan O'brien
I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
~ Mike Davidson
Every successful sports season I had included detailed daily itineraries. We received one in the morning and one before practice, and they set us up to win.
The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.
~ Rei Kawakubo
Harlem was a development, a developer's dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem's destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place.
~ David Levering Lewis
There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.
~ Mahershala Ali
First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
~ Barry Manilow
I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.
~ Shawn Mendes
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
~ Chanakya
All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.
~ Michael Ian Black
I've always strived to be successful, not famous.
~ Taylor Swift
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
~ Barry Zito
It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.
~ David Cassidy
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
~ William Hurt
When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
~ Russell Brand
I wanted to be successful, not famous.
~ George Harrison
I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.
~ Michael Korda
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
~ Paul Valéry
Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.
~ Seth Shostak
Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a teacher, a friend, a parent, a guardian, a sister, a grandmother. It only takes one person, and it doesn't really matter who it is.
~ Sean Covey
No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
~ William Osler
A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.
~ Clive Granger
There has never been, and there will never be, another human who will be more successful than the humble Teacher, Jesus Christ.
~ Monica Johnson
