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“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn't exist.”

People Feelings Difficult Failing Regret Sorrow Healthy Projects Frustration Rejected Terrified Annoyance

Author:Albert Ellis

“It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.”

Fighting Difficult Failing Adversaries

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.”

Men Has Beens Ends Difficult Term Failing Ready Secure Wrecks Incompetent Removal

Author:Wilhelm Keitel

“Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.”

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.”

Ifs Way Trying Helping Problem Asks Difficult Failing Creating Solutions Solve Faster Try Again Difficult Problems

Author:Aza Raskin

“Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.”

Humans Asks Easy Difficult Love Is Behinds Failing Journey Leaving Foolish Pursue Inevitable Fortunate Transition Human Experience

Author:Maria Popova

“Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.”

Film Difficult Watches Failing Failure Flesh Bloody

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.”

Thinking Children Important Next Difficult Technology Failing Effects Industry Our Children Medical Cures Providing Oblivion Best Education

Author:Sam Harris

“Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.”

Problem Difficult Community Failing Conflict Arise Ethical Subculture

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot, I think it's difficult to find a voice that shouts above the crowds.”

Thinking Problem Young Artist Difficult Voice Failing Willing Crowds Young Artists

Author:Jacob Hashimoto

“By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.”

Difficult Practice Failing Risk Management Definitions Moron Risk Management

Book:The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

“Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.”

Needs Wells Happens Kids Order Difficult Rooms Common Failing Succeed Common Sense Your Room

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.”

Way May Different Easy Difficult Failing Succeed Different Ways

Author:Aristotle