“Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.” PeopleFailingNew YorkMovedBarsAugust Author:Robert Quine
“I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day. The Lakers had the Showtime era. Boston had six hall of famers on one team. You had Detroit, the New York Knicks, and now the Miami Heat. They were stacking their teams back then, it just fell off over the years and now it picked back up. Boston did it first, then LA. I was fortunate enough to play against them when they had Shaq, Kobe, Rick Fox, Gary Payton, Karl Malone... that's five hall of famers on one team! So you can't get mad at Miami for doing what they did.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsFirstsHas BeensEnoughPlayRealizingFiveFailingTeamNew YorkSixOrganizationMadErasFortunateHeatHallsFoxesBostonDetroitMiamiGaryBack In The DayLakersKnicksShaqShowtimeStackingMiami Heat Author:Carmelo Anthony
“Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent - or confronting any obstacle - that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.” PeopleTryingMayLongDreamFightingDoubtFailingAchieveNew YorkPromiseObstaclesDenyOpponentsCriticizeI PromiseMayorsConfronting Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning…The thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think, Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you’ve got to go out and take advantage of it.” IfsThinkingWayWantTryingBelieveSometimesBigsHappensTodayEnergyI BelieveMistakeMorningFailingNew YorkLuckyAdvantageLuckGet UpMy WayGatesAirplaneNew ThingsEvery MorningMottoAdventurousThings I LoveChargingMy MottoLucky YouThrottle Author:Tom Brokaw
“I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.” TwoCareAbleJesusCitiesBoysWorryFailingNew YorkExampleMetsNew York CityApartmentPersonal RelationshipsNannies Author:Kim Alexis
“Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.” EyeCertainNumbersFailingNew YorkJustified Book:Edith Wharton The Dover Reader Source: Edith Wharton The Dover Reader
“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsKindTwoFactsHouseDifferencesFictionFailingWrittenNew YorkExampleBuildingBrokenSummerTablesGreenWinterExperimentsMessMaking A DifferenceJournalBroken DownVermontShackLeviathan Author:Paul Auster
“I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.” IfsThinkingDifferentWholeStoriesJoySongEnergySpeakFunOur LivesFailingNew YorkSensualityVulnerabilityDifferent ThingsMoths Author:Caroline Polachek
“College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.” LooksMayHardSpaceCitiesFailingHappenedNew YorkCollegeSafeInstitutionsNew York CityPaceMandatesSafe Space Author:Baratunde Thurston