“What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.” IfsFatherEasyFailingRiskTaughtSafeGood WorkEasy Road Author:Natasha Richardson
“Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.” HardEasyFailingBuildingEasier Author:Tony Robbins
“I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.” IfsKnowsWorldWayChildrenFatherEasyParentDecisionFailingProudLateMy ChildrenInstantToo LateFeedbackControversialBoxersGood Parent Book:The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“It's easy for me to work with other girls because I'm a tomboy and I don't want the guy, your boyfriend - I'm not interested in looking better than you, so don't worry. Fail or win, whatever it is, I need to go do stuff.” WantNeedsGuyGirlWinningEasyStuffWorryFailingNot InterestedBetter Than YouOther GirlYour Boyfriend Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“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.” WayMeanReasonFormEvilEasyDifficultSimpleVirtueFailingMissingSucceedGoodnessMarkErrorsVicesOne WayReason WhyTargetExcessUnlimitedImageryDeficiencyBadnessObservanceManifold Book:The Nicomachean ethics Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“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.” HumansAsksEasyDifficultLove IsBehindsFailingJourneyLeavingFoolishPursueInevitableFortunateTransitionHuman Experience Author:Maria Popova
“Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has a go. Editors, DPs, actors, craft services guy, everybody wants to try it out but it is such a diffuse but necessary set of skills that you never know which one this person might lack.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingPersonsMightJobsGuyActorsEasyFailingSkillsCraftsEditorsAlchemy Author:Joss Whedon
“Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.” ThinkingMenEasyPovertyFailingStreetsWallHonorCircumstancesIntegritySlaveDebtBe A ManMillionaire Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I'm a strong believer that you have to have an equal opportunity to fail and to try things that are hard. I always tell my students, "Don't just take things that are easy for you. If you're really good at math, don't take just math. Take classes that make you write. If you're a really great writer, but bad at math, take math and make yourself work your way through it."” IfsWayWritingTryingHardOpportunityStrongEasyClassFailingStudentsEqualMathBelieverReally GreatGreat WritersEqual OpportunityThings That Are Hard Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.” IfsWaySoulBigsMightHappensPainSpiritualCultureEasyDarknessVirtueFailingJourneyEssentialsVictimRefuseAllowingHealerAdmittingSpiritual Journey Author:Matthew Fox
“The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsEnoughProblemEnergyEasyFailingFailureDisciplineManagementMarketingFinanceOperationsOwnersInsatiableTime And EnergyInsatiable Need Author:Michael Gerber
“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.” WayMayDifferentEasyDifficultFailingSucceedDifferent Ways Author:Aristotle
“I think that we're all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that's fairly easy. And if we write about our friends or our families, we can do that. But if we want to project ourselves somewhere beyond our personal experience we're going to fail unless we get that experience or we borrow it from others.” IfsThinkingWantWritingHumansEasyCan DoHuman BeingsFailingProjectsOur FamilyPersonal Experiences Author:William T. Vollmann
“Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has already made at least thirty additional adjustments to the realities of the market while your politico fails to get anything more than easy media.” ThinkingTryingMadeEndsRealityEasyHoursDifferencesFailingMediaChangedAmountPressesHearingAccomplishOilLocalsReleaseThirtyGasStationsOrganizeAdjustmentCongressmanGas StationsAccomplish NothingOil PricePress Release Author:Joel Miller
“I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.” ThinkingFeelsTryingYearsImportantFallEasyGoalTermFailingShort TermShort Term Goals Author:Carrie Brownstein
“Drafting of the constitutions is interesting and the discussions around them revealing in many ways. I take it as a discussion of very important symbols revealing many different problems. My take at the beginning was to warn that Tunisia might be the only successful country, the only one to justify us in talking about the spring, while all the other countries were less successful, if not failing. Now the point is that even in Tunisia it is not going to be easy, and this is where we have a problem.” IfsWayImportantDifferentCountryProblemMightEasyInterestingTalkingSuccessfulFailingSpringConstitutionSymbolsDiscussionJustifyOther CountriesRevealingDraftingTunisia Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I think a lot of people think that just because you have a celebrity attached to your company, that all things are easy. I don't have a stat to back this up, but my experience has shown me that more often than not, celebrity production companies fail.” PeopleThinkingEasyCompanyFailingAll ThingsProductions Author:Mike Jackson
“Think that it's fun, that you're guided, and that all is well. Think that there's time, that life is easy, and that the best is yet to come. Think that the reasons that elude you will one day catch up, that the lessons that stumped you will one day bring joy, and that the sorrows that have crippled you will soon give you wings. Think that you're important, that you cannot fail, and that happiness always returns. And think that you're beautiful.” ThinkingGivingWellsImportantReasonMotivationalBeautifulLife IsJoyFunEasyFailingReturnSorrowLessonsOne DayWingsCrippledEludeYou Re BeautifulBest Is Yet To ComeLife Is EasyElude You Author:Mike Dooley