“Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.” TryingActionLosesFailingFailureProjectsRuinsRipeRushingCompletion Author:Laozi
“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance-all healthy feelings without which people couldn't exist.” PeopleFeelingsDifficultFailingRegretSorrowHealthyProjectsFrustrationRejectedTerrifiedAnnoyance Author:Albert Ellis
“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
“Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.” PeopleJobsRememberUnderstandingFailingProjectsEntrepreneurInvestingRemember YouRemembers You Author:Dave McClure
“Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.” BelieveSometimesI BelieveSuccessfulFailingRiskProjectsSensesHopefullyBeing Successful Author:Stephen Chow
“I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.” ThinkingShouldTryingTermFailingPoetTasteDiversityProjectsAppreciateCookingWideMediumsAllowance Author:James Arthur
“When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."” IfsWayBigsEnergyFailingAmountProjectsDestroyed Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky
“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
“There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn't require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.” WayTryingTwoCultureLanguageGoalTermCompanyMoralFailingRiskSucceedProjectsConcernedInnovationSticksProfitQuittingAbandonNew ThingsExceptionalShort TermDiscouragingRisk-takingMoral CourageTrying New Things Author:Michael Josephson
“The problem with success is that you lose the capacity to fail and the capacity to surprise people. So, if I'm able to surprise myself every day, I can surprise you as well. If I enjoy someone's work and they offer me their project, I do it. So what's the point of the supposed creativity? If Mona Lisa could be made by anyone, then it wouldn't have been the most beautiful painting in the world. The knowledge that you can fail can make you come first.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsWellsHas BeensMadeI CanProblemAbleBeautifulEnjoyLosesCreativityFailingPaintingOffersProjectsCapacitySurpriseMona LisaBeautiful Paintings Author:Shahrukh Khan
“I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project can fail. I don't want a book to fail.” WantStillsBookFailingMiddleProjects Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez
“In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to. It's a modern Inferno, where Lowell plays both Dante and Virgil, guiding us through dozens of illuminating, bitter episodes from human history, all the while managing to hold a mirror to our confused hominid face as it squints at eternity and fails to grasp any of it.” HumansPlayFacesFailingModernProjectsEternityMirrorsBrilliantBitterConfusedDozenEpisodesTireFlawedHuman HistoryInfernoIlluminatingHominids Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely