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“Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam?”

Knows Light Artist Know How Failing Thousand Shining Concentration Beam

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”

World Giving Trying Years Dies Winning Failing Tears Failure Honor Thousand Glory Prize Cried Thousand Years

Book:The Building of the City Beautiful

Source: The Building of the City Beautiful

“I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.”

Way Two Found Failing Thousand

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.”

Writing Believe I Believe Behinds Creative Failing Thousand I Believe In Relaxed Behind You

Author:Ray Bradbury

“How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.”

Men Helping Heaven Friendship United Impossible Failing Thousand Ten Capable Infinite League Sufficient Mutual Yield Hollow Neutrality Man United

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

“Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.”

Ifs Men Mind Littles Would Be Life Is Lying Natural Mistake Struggle Failing Heard Thousand Ideals Cows Beauty Of Life Backsliding

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.”

Made Seems Individual Left Cases Failing Particular Broken Thousand Window Connections Universal Accounts Make Sense Broken Windows

Book:Thinking about Crime

Source: Thinking about Crime