#failure

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#evolved #failures #into #process #ratio

Failure is a part of success. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#part #success

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. ↗

— Maude Adams

#failure #petty #success

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#climb #failures #finding #heaven #most

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#adjustment #difficult #failure #harmonize #important

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#alternative #come #course #detour #every

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. ↗

— Greg Bear

#beautiful #because #buried #childhood #childhood memories

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#divorce #eyes #failure #hate #i

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring. ↗

— Tom Baker

#been #boring #compared #described #disappointment

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#did #end #failure #hide #i