“There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.” WritingSelfFallAgain And AgainParody Author:Tobias Wolff
“Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.” IfsKnowsTryingStillsRunningFallCompanyKnow HowStandingBoardsShoreSoftwareAgain And AgainSurfAdviserSoftware Company Author:Joel Spolsky
“When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.” IfsFallEffortLaughingBuddhismPicksAgain And AgainFalling DownSloppyPick Yourself Up Author:Frederick Lenz
“We grasp because God does. We create, and fall short, because God does. We continue creating because we fell short, and fall short again, because God does. Because one act of creation, one attempt at capture, is only one breath and we must breathe again. And again. And again. Here we stand (and sit and sleep), the many images of the Imager, and we can do no other.” DoeFallCan DoSleepCreationCreatingBreathsBreatheCaptureAgain And Again Book:Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent Source: Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.” MenMayFacesFallEffortHe ManErrorsStriveCreditDustSweatDaringAgain And AgainStrifeArenaShortcomingsDaring GreatlyDaring To Be Great Author:Theodore Roosevelt