“People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and claim their stomach is upset the next morning. Does anyone fail to see that the world is an unjust judge, gracious and well disposed to its own children but harsh and rigorous towards the children of God?” PeopleIfsWorldWellsChildrenDoeNightNextWatchesMorningFailingJudgingClaimsCatholicDancingComplainingUpsetThirtyStomachHarshUnjustGraciousChild Of God Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.” IfsTryingPowerfulMillionsFailingEventsCharityProfitExperimentsUpsetEndeavorCurvesRevenueAttorneyParamountFundraisingLearning CurveFundraising For Charity Author:Dan Pallotta
“though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.” DoeRealSoulFactsSpiritualBitsFailingHumilityEatingUpsetWormsShortcomingsAcknowledgement Author:Evelyn Underhill
“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.” IfsTogetherFilmActorsFunSoundActingFailingRiskSucceedElementsExcitingCamerasPainterUpsetSound And MusicFilm Directing Author:George Clooney
“I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.” MindWholeFailingSucceedProveUpsetPleasantSuccess And FailureLotteryPhilosophic Book:Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand
“In the past I've tended to overreact. I was sure I'd be a superstar by the time I was twenty-one. Baseball messed up my plan of life. When I fail I get upset. Sometimes I get upset too quickly, without thinking of consequences.” ThinkingSometimesPastPlansFailingConsequenceBaseballTwentiesUpsetTwenty OneSuperstarMessed Up Author:Albert Belle
“You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.” AbleKnowingFailingOkayMadUpsetLoser Author:Dan O'Brien