You need to accept failure as part of life and not a final sentence on who you are as a person.

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The right set of emotions can even make up for bad numbers or technical uncertainty in high risk startups- whereas great numbers will rarely make up for a failure to make people feel the right way about what you are doing.

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The 11 plus can be incredibly damaging to a child's esteem, because failure of the 11 plus sends a clear signal that you are just not good enough.

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She has the indispensable knack of being able to write a well-turned scene, and "The Great God Pan" is full of scenes that are so subtly drawn that you can almost overlook their failure to add up to a fully convincing whole.

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There's a lot at stake certainly and the consequences of failure, you know, for the nation are rather significant.

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"You have to believe that what they're doing is a failure or you have to believe that African-American and Latino kids are less gifted, " Mr. Borland said.

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