I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures STICK in your HEAD as much as the WINS. But you do move on.

As with EARLY internet startups, some TOKEN MODELS don't make sense. For every 1 huge hit, there will be 3 minor successes and 100 failures, so we shouldn't be SURPRISED when some fail.

I don't THINK that being an ACTOR or being a performer at a young age LEADS to failures as an adult. There's a LOT more success stories than I think people recognize.

The CONTENT of your CHARACTER will COME from how you RESPOND to your FAILURES.

I consider myself as a human being with lots of UPS and DOWNS and LEARNING from a lot of FAILURES before I can SUCCEED.

People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you COUNT on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is unique in this ASPECT because a thousandths-of-an-inch mistake can cause spectacular FAILURES.

There are no FAILURES in LIFE: only LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.

The FAILURES of other GENRES to provide an emotional connection with some of their CHARACTERS and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

An over-reliance on past SUCCESSES is a SURE blueprint for future FAILURES.

I THINK my FAILURES in Houston is what MADE me who I am. I think it's given me that drive, that drive to KEEP working, because you never KNOW what can happen type deal.

The Soviet Union has INDEED been our GREATEST menace, not so much because of what it has DONE, but because of the excuses it has PROVIDED us for our failures.

We don't GROW UNLESS we TAKE risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

One of the GREAT intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if SOMEONE hasn't attacked US, it's because he can't or because we've DEFEATED him.

Acting is DEFINITELY an incredible pursuit, but on the other SIDE, it's a business, and learning where art meets business was a huge lesson for me. The more you can wrap your mind around that idea - that YES, this is my art, but it's TIED into business - the more it HELPS you understand and move past the failures.

The difference between us and them, between you and SUCCESS, is not that you NEVER fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did WRONG, and then you MAKE it right. I SAY that to my kids every day.