“Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far.” PeopleIfsDreamAsksFailingWillingPicksPhonesCrash Author:Steve Jobs
“Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.” IfsKnowsI CanFailingProjectsPicksExcellentStamina Author:Eddie Izzard
“Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.” MadeRememberChoicesFailingRiskCapablePicksAdversityStoppingPersevere Author:Jason Kilar
“One thing that I've realized is that you're never going to be 100 percent successful. You're always going to be let down. When you have God in your life and you follow Christ, you're never going to be let down. Every time that you fail, He's there to pick you right back up. Every time you think the world's going to end because you had a couple of bad games, God's there to remind you that's not what it's all about.” ThinkingWorldEndsGamesChristSuccessfulFailingOne ThingCouplePicksPercentLet DownBad Games Author:Mark Teixeira
“I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.” IfsMeanPersonsPresidentInterestingFailingWorstPicksFlawsRankingGreat PresidentsInteresting Life Author:David McCullough
“The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I don't go to - I pick my battles very, very judiciously, and I just assume that there's good in the heart of everybody.” HeartDoneNextFailingBattleQuietPicksAssumingComplainingLet It GoJust Let It Go Author:James McBride
“In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to marry, not tell you what job to pick. You're your own person. You have the freedom to choose, including the freedom to fail in magnificent ways. And I think that's the big difference. In other countries there is basically a social norm about saving that is passed from generation to generation. In the U.S. there isn't.” ThinkingWayPersonsCountryBigsKidsJobsSocialDifferencesFailingGenerationsPicksIncludingIdeologySavingOther CountriesMagnificentNormSocial NormsFreedom To Choose Author:Dan Ariely
“I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they're doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn't finished his test, but still gets to play because he is an athlete, fails the test and still gets to play because they're an athlete, gets to get away with not doing chores at home because they've got practice.” ThinkingWayStillsPlayMomentsHomeKidsSportsPracticeFailingMajorsPicksTestsBallsAthleteIllFinishedKicksThrownGet AwayCyclesJuniorsEntitlementChoresJunior High Author:John Amaechi