But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself and the more preparation you can do the less chance of failing.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor the education of its young the repair of its failing infrastructure the repayment of its staggering war debts.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out I'd take that as failing.

I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven I'm failing.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically socially ethically and morally.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk sometimes failing sometimes succeeding but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

As you know from school it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared even if you fail you've done your best.