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“The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.”

Way Failing Assuming One Way

Author:Nicholas Stern

“I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'”

Ifs Way Guy Loses Successful Failing Team One Way Destructive Pulling Rope

Author:Curt Schilling

“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

“How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.”

“Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.”

Way Done Failing Letting Go Notion One Way Where You Are Discomfort

Author:Michael Adam Hamilton

“That's one way to overcome criticism: tank so hard that failing becomes glorious and meaningless.”

Way Hard Failing Criticism Overcoming One Way Glorious Meaningless Tanks

Author:Greg Walloch