Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.

—Mary Pickford

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Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), baptised as Gladys Marie Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian American film actress and producer. A pioneer in the American film industry with a Hollywood career spanning five decades, Pickford was one of the most popular actresses...

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Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

—Mary Pickford

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

—J. K. Rowling

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

—J. K. Rowling

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

—J. K. Rowling

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

—Henry David Thoreau

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