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“As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.”
“And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreak...”
“And the thing is, we cant fail. Weve already hit the bottom and come out of it. From here on out, if we just love and listen, we cant go wrong, babe.”
“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”
“The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.”
“Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.”
“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core ...”
“Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.”
“You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.”
“You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.”
“The ladder of success is there waiting for you... you just have to realize it and reach towards and climb as high as you can you will surely be successful.”
“The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing youve ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...”
“It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.”
“Failure has its successes.”
“A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”
“People think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not. Failure is part of the process of success.”
“I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.”
“Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.”
“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white...”
“When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. ...”
