“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote, “Self-Portrait,” The Dogs Bark
Tag: failure
Quote of the Day
“That’s the saving grace of humor; if you fail, at least you don’t have anyone laughing at you.” — A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture
Quote of the Day
“In nine hundred and ninety-nine instances out of a thousand, it is folly to name any success or failure as such; for either is a mystery, and the fairest evidences by which we can form an opinion of it are altogether and irremediably fallacious.” — Louise Imogen Guiney, “The Under Dog,” Patrins
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“Lots of people called their ships unsinkable before the Titanic. Voicing your hubris doesn’t make failure more likely, just more memorable.” — Randall Munroe, Prescience (hovertext)
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“Destiny, n.: A tyrant’s authority for crime and fool’s excuse for failure.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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“It seems success takes you away from what you know, he said, while failure condemns you to it.” — Rachel Cusk, Outline
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“When failure is not an option, success can be expensive.” — Peter Stibrany, The Microsat Way in Canada
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“Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.” — Jane Wagner
Quote of the Day
“No man’s a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage, and that’s the same thing.” — George Horace Lorimer, Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Uber Nebbish
The interviewer’s guest is annoying me. He proudly states that the only thing he is successful at is failure. He is so good at failure that he is now a successful failure.
He’s a stereotypical super-blogcaster. Name-dropping, hyperbole, and platitudes.
And the voice. It feels like I’m listening to Woody Allen’s self-help channel.
I think about skipping to the next podcast. He’s a good storyteller.
He catches himself building a story and self-corrects. Storytellers believe their own narratives.
I listen until the end. I can’t remember a thing he said. I did make a good guacamole, and have a zucchini bread cooling.
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