failure

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

The value of a moment is immeasurable. The power of just ONE moment can propel you to success and happiness or chain you to failure and misery.

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

Eyes narrowed, Judd stared at the structure as if at a mortal enemy. Slapping his fellow lieutenant on the shoulder, Riaz said, "Don't even think about it." A pissed-off telekinetic versus the complex metal pylons and tubes of the jungle gym- the results would not be pretty.Judd glanced at his watch. "I'll destroy it later.

The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.

From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my

To make the fastest progress,Be an absolutely cheerfulHero-warriorAnd take both victory and failureAs parallel experience riversLeading to the sea Of progress-delight.

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

No marketplace, free or otherwise, is good when it fails to consider the basic human state of needs at every stage of life.

If you are afraid to fail, then you are afraid to succeed.

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn__ have even survived.

The man who has done his level best_is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.

Whatever actions you take, keep in mind that over the course of life, you will fail far more from timidity, procrastination, and carefulness than you will from just stepping up to the plate and, as we say in Australia, giving it a bloody go!

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

Deep down, Story Easton knew what would happen if she attempted to off herself__he would fail It was a matter of probability. This was not a new thing, failure. She was, had always been, a failure of fairy-tale proportion. Quitting wasn__ Story__ problem. She had tried, really tried, lots of things during different stages of her life__irl Scours, the viola, gardening, Tommy Andres from senior year American Lit__ut zero cookie sales, four broken strings, two withered azalea bushes, and one uniquely humiliating breakup later, Story still had not tasted success, and with a shriveled-up writing career as her latest disappointment, she realized no magic slippers or fairy dust was going to rescue her from her Anti-Midas Touch. No Happily Ever After was coming. So she had learned to find a certain comfort in failure. In addition to her own screw-ups, others_ mistakes became cozy blankets to cuddle, and she snuggled up to famous failures like most people embrace triumph. The Battle of Little Bighorn__ thing of beauty. The Bay of Pigs__elicious debacle. The Y2K Bug__orgeously disappointing fuck-up. Geraldo__ anti-climactic Al Capone exhumation__ops! Jaws III__eaven on film. Tattooed eyeliner__yelids everywhere, revolting. Really revolting. Fat-free potato chips__ood Lord, makes anyone feel successful.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview(Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word "experiment" in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?