#failures

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#accuse #being #emotions #failures #faults

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#failures #least #us

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#early #failures #few #greatest #life

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#failures #old #successes #than #young

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. ↗

— John Poindexter

#enough #experiments #failure #failures #get

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#lessons #mistakes #only

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces. ↗

— Bill Walton

#better #better person #failures #i #i can

Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head. ↗

— Sōichirō Honda

#failures #reminder #success #attitude

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement." [Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech] ↗

— John Steinbeck

#exposure #failures #faults #improvement #writers

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