“Don’t stop when you fail. Instead, use your failures to measure your level of success.”
“Failure is so much more interesting.”
Source: City on Fire
“So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
Source: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
“It's important to undermine yourself and create a level of difficulty so the work doesn't come too easily. The more comfortable you get, the more money you earn, the more successful you are, the harder it is to create situations where you have to prove yourself and make yourself not just want it, but need it. The stakes should always feel high.”
Source: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
“Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence; they take corrections.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“What better way could we teach our children the importance of learning to push forward despite failure than to openly embrace in the education system Trial and Learn as our truly only human learning process. In doing so, we eliminate the stigma of failure and view it as an important part of the process of learning.”
Source: Increasing Intuitional Intelligence: How the Awareness of Instinctual Gut Feelings Fosters Human Learning, Intuition, and Longevity
“Something about breaking my own heart, time after time, made me sublime.”
Source: An Abundance of Apricots
“Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.”
Source: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
“If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations.”
Source: Leaders' Ladder
“When one dream dies we replace it with another.”
Source: Synchronesia: A Depressing Existential Novel