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“I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.”

Ifs Reason Choices Given My Own Accepting Failing Missing Goes On Framework Power To Change

Book:Liv Ullmann: Interviews

Source: Liv Ullmann: Interviews

“My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands”

Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

“The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.”

May Has Beens Light Fall Failing Missing Danger Needed Highest Wake Up Busy Perceive Unconscious Abiding Presence Of God

Author:Phillips Brooks

“Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.”

Giving Order Winning Given Chance Interesting Failing Missing Golf Extremes Margins Chances Are Rigidity Ultras One Chance Bluffs

Book:The Mystery of Golf

Source: The Mystery of Golf

“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

“In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us.”

May Important Real Ends Enough Too Much Failing Missing Objects Models Physics Monsters Abstract Charybdis Scylla

Book:Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers

Source: Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers

“Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.”

Important Done Creative Pieces Failing Missing Arsenal

Author:Twyla Tharp

“You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn't work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they 'll fail and it's not the audience's fault for not getting it or loving it.”

Thinking Way Kind Sometimes Artist Values Dark Audience Laughing Failing Subjects Missing Jokes Faults Work Out Comedian Edgy

Author:Anthony Jeselnik