“Is failure part of his DNA?
See, the world has utterly FAILED him. Doesn't it stand to reason that his standard is so high that he can't help but FAIL himself?
To be so relentlessly driven that FAILURE is met violently, well, it must be tiring.”
Source: Batman: Damned
“Some failures are about genuine change. Intensive self-reflection. And coming to the deep understanding that you can't go on living the way you have been.”
Source: This Is Me Letting You Go
“It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness”
“He thought often about saving the bridgemen. And yet, as he considered, he realized that he often framed saving them in terms of saving himself. He told himself he wouldn’t let them die, because he knew what it would do to them if they did. When he lost men, the wretch threatened to take over because of how much Kaladin hated failing.”
Source: The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]
“In the times we live in, no one can blame anyone for their own failure.”
“Failure is a necessary ingredient to invention.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“In other words, perfectionists use procrastination as a way of surviving struggle, challenge and failure without the inevitable emotional damage. But eventually, they’re just damaged by the passage of time.”
Source: The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough
“Creativity flourishes with practice, collaboration, and a willingness to embrace failure—not as a personal shortcoming, but as a challenge to the systems that tell us our ideas must be perfect or profitable to matter.”
Source: You Are Creative: Free Yourself to Free the World
“The plan, after all, doesn’t always go according to the plan. If it looks like I haven’t failed, it’s because I choose not to see anything that happens to me as failure. To me, failure doesn’t exist.
I imagine that failure is something we tell ourselves exists so we can quit. It’s an excuse to give up, to say ‘Oh, this did not work. I’m done.’ It creates a limit on what we think we can achieve. Just for a minute, think about what it would be like if we lived in a world where we had no option but to keep trying. If you know you could never fail, you would never stop trying. You wouldn’t have an out. There would be no end line to fantasize about. What if everything we think we’re not capable of is an illusion? Then the plan would always be to keep going. There would be so much more space for opportunity. What possibilities would that space invite in?”
Source: Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
“When we feel insecure, why do we allow ourselves to forget our expertise? You know what you know, and you can carry those skills no matter where you go, into uncomfortable terrain. Limits are removed, results are open, and failure ceases to exist.”
Source: Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be