When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Failure is delay but not defeat. It is a temporary detour not a dead-end street.
When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell leap.
There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from...
If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.
Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
Failure is usually the line of least persistence.
Better a false belief than no belief at all.
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings - even if we don't deserve it.
In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.
Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged m...
Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learn...
All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.
I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
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