“Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.” IfsEnoughEmotionFailingBecomingCapableHungryDrunkIntoxication Author:Andre Gide
“When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.” ThinkingWantFirstsWould BeFeltForgetFocusFailingFansBecomingPerformancesPressureReactionsAdmireFrightenedLegendsJaneAustenPlaying Someone Author:Anne Hathaway
“The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.” WayYearsMeanReasonDoneStoriesWantedNovelFailingWrittenStudentsBecomingShort StoryOperaNew WaysEssaysGearsScreenplays Author:Ray Bradbury
“Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.” PeopleWorldPastMovingBornHurtDealsSituationFailingCryThis WorldBecomingMessFearfulBloodyDifferentiate Author:Robert Greene
“Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.” IfsFeelsDoeEndsSelfMomentsAbleFearHurtAbilityAliveFailingRiskBecomingSucceedDefinitionsDetermineWho We AreFrozenSurvivingBecoming MorePrecious Moments Book:Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret Source: Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret
“Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.” MenMadeCharacterChanceFailingBecomingAccidentsRidiculousEvery ManShort Time Author:Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
“Government must guard against quasi-monopoly suppliers becoming too important to fail, and encourage competition through, for example, splitting up contracts to encourage (smaller businesses) to bid for work.” ImportantGovernmentFailingExampleBecomingCompetitionContractsMonopolySplittingSuppliersSplitting Up Author:Margaret Hodge
“Fail is a verb not a noun, most people think that when they fail, they become a noun and call themselves failures. People have to learn from their mistakes just as children learn to ride bicycles by falling off bicycles. Mistakes can be priceless if we are willing to learn from them because the price to becoming rich is the willingness to make mistakes and learn from them without blaming or justifying” PeopleIfsThinkingChildrenFallMistakeRichFailingWillingBecomingBlameMaking MistakesWillingnessBicyclePricelessVerbsNounsFalling OffWilling To Learn Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.” PeopleThinkingPersonsImportantFeelingsLossFailingSeriousBecomingHeroScreensDecentSentimentalNormAnti Hero Author:Brendan Gleeson
“Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and are becoming disillusioned from politics. People don't like voting. Whoever you vote, government gets in. Whatever they promise, they never fulfill.” PeopleWorldReasonStoriesGovernmentHumanityNumbersFailingModernBecomingPromiseVoteVotingModern WorldDisillusioned Author:Satish Kumar