#fail

How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred thousand? ... So this is what Einstein meant when he looked me in the eye that day and said, I would be nothing without you. It was not success he saw written in my face. He saw, rather, that I would never accomplish anything at all. ↗

— Rana Dasgupta

#failure #genius #ordinariness #success #men

When my now ex wife said she wanted a separation, I was horrified. So I said, “You want me to wear a condom?!”
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— Jarod Kintz

#failure #false-conclusion #horrified #horror #mistake

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#gospel

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#course #destructive #even #failure #inaction

God will not forgive us if we fail. ↗

— Leonid I. Brezhnev

#forgive #god #us #will

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#because #concept #decided #down #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. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#change #deeds #fail #failing #how

Failing to plan is planning to fail. ↗

— Alan Lakein

#failing #plan #planning

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#built #fail #fearing #i #lose

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#automatically #fails #follow #get #i