A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

AB de Villiers
AB de Villiers

The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.

Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee

My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch.

Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis

There is a lurking sense that there is a kind of seedy corruption underlying a lot of public life today. But while journalism does a very good job of describing that corruption, it is failing to bring it into a bigger focus. To explain what it is all about.

Adam Grant
Adam Grant

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

Adam Neumann
Adam Neumann

When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.

Adam Thielen
Adam Thielen

I love to compete and I hate failing.

Aisling Bea
Aisling Bea

Don't be afraid to look silly. You are only holding yourself back if you are afraid of looking silly or failing.

Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin

It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.