#failure

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#act #break #command #face #fail

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. 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

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#based #confidence #details #discipline #excitement

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. ↗

— John Dewey

#failures #his #instructive #learns #much

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#any #endeavour #failure #just #part

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#anything #failure #fear #i #i am

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#experiment #failure #fear #four #next

Translation is the art of failure. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#failure #translation

But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#addressed #classic #collective #democracy #energy

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ↗

— George Eliot

#called #enough #failure #good #grander