I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure it's because you've started to think of failure.

I think you have to try and fail because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Failure is a great teacher and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences then you've got something to share.

To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner then he is.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence and the downward spiral begins.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

Think twice before you speak because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line banishment from all the living and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

I think you can have 10 000 explanations for failure but no good explanation for success.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Many children are natural fantasists I think perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

And so I think that if the person has the funds the network and the equipment to do this and also the experience which is the key factor then they can be quite deadly.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at it's usually somewhere else.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting then I realised it was me.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing and finding out they were another.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them by themselves or society or another gender because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.