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“If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.”

Ifs Writing Situation Failing Lucky Creating

Author:Ira Glass

“Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Facts Passion Situation Know How Knowing Failing Judging Discipline Prejudice Know Yourself Adjustment

Author:Bernard Baruch

“To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.”

Self Age Individual Social Results Effort Situation Failing Pride Morality Demand Adjustment Individual Morality

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.”

Long War Might Realizing Situation Moral Failing Function Heat Substitutes Propose

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.”

Ideas Literature Situation Failing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Inherent in being proactive and trying things and not waiting to be told what to do is the fact that you're going to fail, you're going to make mistakes, and you're probably going to piss people off. And if you're not pissing people off, if you don't have haters, if you're not putting yourself in a situation that has some risks associated with it, you're probably not going to realize your full potential.”

People Ifs Trying Facts Waiting Realizing Mistake Situation Failing Risk Making Mistakes Inherent Proactive Full Potential

Author:Gina Bianchini

“Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.”

“Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.”

People World Past Moving Born Hurt Deals Situation Failing Cry This World Becoming Mess Fearful Bloody Differentiate

Author:Robert Greene

“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”

Source: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

“Insulate yourself... from anonymous angry people Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand Precisely measure the results that are important to you Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter Fail often Ship Lead, don't manage so much Seek out uncomfortable situations Make an impact on the people who matter to you Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else Copyedit less, invent more Give more speeches Ignore unsolicited advice”

People Giving Art Important Matter Results Situation Failing Advice Skills Speech Blind Angry Impact Ships Manage Uncomfortable Metrics Uncomfortable Situations Unsolicited Advice

Author:Seth Godin

“When you are setting yourself up for success, above all put on love, because love never fails and with one-size-fits-all solution to every situation you will ever encounter.”

Love Is Situation Failing Fit Solutions Size Setting Settings Encounters One Size Fits All Love Never Fails

Author:Joo

“If you work hard, good things will happen. I will never be in a situation where if I fail I can look back and say, 'If I'd only worked harder.'”

Ifs Looks I Can Hard Happens Situation Failing Hard Work Harder Good Things

Author:Travis Hafner

“God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.”

Situation Failing Glory Stronger Temptation Penalties Manhood Tested Abraham

Author:William Barclay

“The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons.”

Ifs Looks Persons Whole Evil White Results Situation Failing Minutes Circumstances Bitter Look Up Tempted Agonizing Vehement Racial Equality

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one stranger. This always seems like a bit of a failing on my part, as a human. I think that's also why I put myself situations where I'm forced to engage in other ways.”

Thinking Way Humans Bigs Seems Bits Situation Audience Failing Fronts Comfortable Stranger

Author:Miranda July