failure

It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point where they knew they made mistakes...it is interesting but unfortunately, irrelevant. Did they go to their death and grieve for what they did? Did the makers of the atomic bomb grieve for the destruction they dedicated their lives towards creating? Who cares? They did it. Whether they knew what they were creating, or whether they talked themselves into believing it was for the best, the glory of history is being able to view it in black-and-white. However honorable one's initial intention, a villain will always be a villain.

When we allow negative messages to fester in our head, they take on a life of their own.

Don__ let any situation intimidate you, defeat you, or conquer you. you are stronger and smarter than anything that challenges you.

Don__ set your own goals by what other people make important.

Self-assurance reassures others and reassures yourself.

Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.

Focus on how far you have come in liferather than looking at the accomplishments of others.

Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.

Don__ blame others. it won__ make you a better person.

Becoming a great leader doesn__ mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.

Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

When your intuition is strong, follow it.

My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one.

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke, then I would not be able to articulate anything at all. The ego, or consciousness, can therefore only work by repressing this turbulent activity, provisionally nailing down words on to meanings. Every now and then a word from the unconscious which I do not want insinuates itself into my discourse, and this is the famous Freudian slip of the tongue or parapraxis. But for Lacan all our discourse is in a sense a slip of the tongue: if the process of language is as slippery and ambiguous as he suggests, we can never mean precisely what we say and never say precisely what we mean. Meaning is always in some sense an approximation, a near-miss, a part-failure, mixing non-sense and non-communication into sense and dialogue.

The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts.

Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.

The key to success is having no qualms about failure.