failure

Failure is blessing wrapped in the clothing of curse.

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

I could take a walk with my wife and try to explain the ghosts I can't stop speaking to. Or I could read all those books piling upabout the beginning of the end of understanding...Meanwhile, it's such a beautiful morning,the changing colors, the hypnotic light.I could sit by the window watching the leaves,which seem to know exactly how to fallfrom one moment to the next. Or I could loseeverything and have to begin over again.

If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.

I think it__ important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I__e never had any fear in my whole life when we__e been near collapse and all of that. I__e never been afraid. I__e never had the feeling I couldn__ walk out and get a job doing something.

The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard.

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

We usually fail at the things most important to us, precisely because they are so important to us.

What you rarely see is a stillborn failure that transmogrifies into a stellar success. Small successes can grow into big ones, but failures rarely grow into successes.I can__ think of an example in my life. It__ generally true that if no one is excited about your art/product/idea in the beginning, they never will be. If the first commercial version of your work excites no one to action, it__ time to move on to something different. Don__ be fooled by the opinions of friends and family. They__e all liars.

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you__l have to learn to deal with failure.

Failure makes the success worth it.

Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.

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.