Shine

Jun. 22nd, 2022 04:31 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“The most significant successes come from letting your light shine, embracing failure, and getting good at being wrong.”

—Stacey Abrams, Minority Leader




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Mistakes

May. 11th, 2022 05:12 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Admitting mistakes is a fundamental skill too few of us learn. In part, this is because we’ve been taught it’s wrong to be wrong.”

—Stacy Abrams, Minority Leader



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Stacey

Dec. 8th, 2021 02:22 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“I suddenly saw opportunity where I had never been brave enough to look before, and I found that failure wasn’t fatal, that otherness held an extraordinary power for clarity and invention.”

—Stacey Abrams, Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change



Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Fail

Apr. 19th, 2021 12:24 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, — it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

—Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and His Mosses,” The Literary World, August 1850



Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Gratitude

Aug. 19th, 2020 01:14 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“When we wake up in the morning we are inspired to do some certain thing and we do do it. The difficulty lies in the fact that it may turn out well or it may not turn out well. If it turns out well we have a tendency to think that we have successfully followed our inspiration and if it does not turn out well we have a tendency to think that we have lost our inspiration. But that is not true. There is successful work and work that fails but all of it is inspired.”

—Agnes Martin, “On the Perfection Underlying Life,” lecture, Institute of Contemporary Art, February 14, 1973



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Ruined

Oct. 29th, 2018 11:24 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”

—Samuel Johnson, letter to Joseph Baretti, December 21, 1762

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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Random quote of the day:

“Sometimes you lay an egg, and people will say, It was too early. Audiences weren’t ready for it. Bullshit. If it’s good, it’s good. If it’s bad, it’s bad.”

—Billy Wilder, The Paris Review, Issue 138, Spring 1996



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pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”

—John W. Gardner, “The Ever-Renewing Society,” Saturday Review, No. 46, 1963

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Ambition

Apr. 14th, 2017 09:45 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”

—Oscar Wilde, “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young,” The Chameleon, December 1894

 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Judgey

Jul. 1st, 2016 09:17 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“Half the fear of failure is of the judgement of false friends we feel compelled to impress but don’t like.”

—Alain de Botton, Twitter, 9/13/11”

failure4WP@@@ 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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Random quote of the day:

“Many times people get tied to the disappointment of what failed rather than focusing on the success that awaits them in the next opportunity.”

—Scott Hamilton, The Great Eight

disappointment4WP@@@ 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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Random quote of the day:

“We should accomplish nothing in this world if we were not guided by wrong ideas.”

—Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle, as quoted by Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

ideas4WP@@@

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“We should accomplish nothing in this world if we were not guided by wrong ideas.”

—Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle, as quoted by Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

ideas4WP@@@

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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Random quote of the day:

“To divide men into the successful and the unsuccessful is to look at human nature from a narrow, preconceived point of view….One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.”

—Anton Chekhov, letter to A. S. Suvorin, November 1888
(tr. Constance Garnett)

 invert4WP@@@

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“To divide men into the successful and the unsuccessful is to look at human nature from a narrow, preconceived point of view….One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.”

—Anton Chekhov, letter to A. S. Suvorin, November 1888
(tr. Constance Garnett)

 invert4WP@@@

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Fail

Sep. 30th, 2011 09:13 am
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Random quote of the day:

 

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”

—J. K. Rowling, 2008 Harvard commencement speech

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Fail

Sep. 30th, 2011 09:13 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

 

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”

—J. K. Rowling, 2008 Harvard commencement speech

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:



"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

—George Edward Woodberry, Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American



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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

 

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

—George Edward Woodberry, Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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Random quote of the day:


“Nothing clarifies the mind like beer and failure—except perhaps hunger."

—Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations: Hong Kong













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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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