#failures

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. ↗

— Humphry Davy

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Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. ↗

— David Brin

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To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#concentrate #establish #failures #forget #lives

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. ↗

— Bob Feller

#baseball #behind #build #day #every

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#bill #black #cities #civil #civil rights

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#embrace #failures #figure #gonna #great

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can. ↗

— David Duchovny

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