Kettering, Charles F. -- “Don’t Be Afraid to Stumble,” The Rotarian (Jan 1952)
The only time you don’t want to fail is the last time you try a thing. Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958) American inventor, engineer, researcher, businessman“Don’t Be Afraid to Stumble,” The Rotarian...
View ArticleSwensen, Daniel -- Orison (2014)
Another fine quotation from WIST - Wish I'd Said That! . If she asked for the sun, he would climb the sky until he burned.
View ArticleKettering, Charles F. -- (Attributed)
Another fine quotation from WIST - Wish I'd Said That! . An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
View ArticleKasdan, Lawrence -- The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [with George Lucas and...
YODA: No! Try not. Do — or do not. There is no try. Lawrence Kasdan (b. 1949) American screenwriter, director, producerThe Empire Strikes Back (1980) [with George Lucas and Leigh Brackett]
View ArticleStevenson, Robert Louis -- Virginibus Puerisque, ch. 2 “Crabbed Age and...
Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poetVirginibus Puerisque, ch. 2 “Crabbed Age and Youth” (1881)
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Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (1732) [comp.]
Better hazard once than be always in fear. Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English writer, physicianGnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (1732) [comp.]
View ArticleMike Monteiro, Design Is a Job (2012)
Another fine quotation from WIST - Wish I'd Said That! . Confidence doesn’t come from knowing you’re right — it comes from being okay with failing.
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Plath, Sylvia -- (Attributed)
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) American poet and author(Attributed)
View ArticleHurston, Zora Neale -- Dust Tracks on a Road, ch. 2 “My Folks” (1942)
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to “jump at de sun.” We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) American writer, folklorist,...
View ArticleBarrett, James Lee -- Shenandoah (1965)
CHARLIE ANDERSON: I wanna say somethin’. I’ve known since the train that we weren’t liable to find him. It was just a hair of a chance that we got Sam back. I knew that. Maybe I knew even before we...
View ArticleYoung, Edward -- “The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, &...
Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. Edward Young (1683-1765) English poet“The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality,” Part 2...
View ArticleAntrim, Minna -- At the Sign of the Golden Calf (1905)
Three Failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice. Minna Antrim (1861-1950) American epigrammatist, writerAt the Sign of the Golden Calf (1905)
View ArticleGaiman, Neil -- “My New Year Wish,” blog entry (31 Dec 2011)
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself,...
View ArticleForbes, Bertie Charles -- Forbes Epigrams (1922)
The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success. Bertie Charles (B. C.) Forbes (1880-1954) American publisherForbes Epigrams (1922)
View ArticleMaugham, W. Somerset -- The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1934)
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked...
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