#failure

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. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures. ↗

— John Powell

#success #communication

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#failure #learning #life #dreams

For a lack of education, a child's future may hold no fortune. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#children #college #education #fail #failures

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#risks #success #equality

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#intelligence #science #scientific-process #success #truth

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation. ↗

— John Green

#failure #side-effects #van-houten-being-a-douche #experience

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret. ↗

— Criss Jami

#counterpart #discovery #empiricism #experience #failures

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#birth-rate #family #socioeconomic-failure #socioeconomics #standard-of-living

I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes. ↗

— Paul Kelly

#wrong #food

I have struck out more times than I can count, but I have hit many home runs as well". ~R. Alan Woods {2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#failures #r-alan-woods #home