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Wed 22 Jun 2022

Shine

Posted by PJ under failure, quote of the day, shine
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Random quote of the day:

“The most significant successes come from letting your light shine, embracing failure, and getting good at being wrong.”

—Stacey Abrams, Minority Leader

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Wed 11 May 2022

Mistakes

Posted by PJ under failure, learning, mistakes, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Admitting mistakes is a fundamental skill too few of us learn. In part, this is because we’ve been taught it’s wrong to be wrong.”

—Stacy Abrams, Minority Leader

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 8 Dec 2021

Stacey

Posted by PJ under failure, opportunity, quote of the day, the other
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Random quote of the day:

“I suddenly saw opportunity where I had never been brave enough to look before, and I found that failure wasn’t fatal, that otherness held an extraordinary power for clarity and invention.”

—Stacey Abrams, Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 19 Apr 2021

Fail

Posted by PJ under failure, originality, quote of the day, success
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Random quote of the day:

“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers, — it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

—Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and His Mosses,” The Literary World, August 1850

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 19 Aug 2020

Gratitude

Posted by PJ under art, creativity, failure, gratitude, inspiration, quote of the day, success
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Random quote of the day:

“When we wake up in the morning we are inspired to do some certain thing and we do do it. The difficulty lies in the fact that it may turn out well or it may not turn out well. If it turns out well we have a tendency to think that we have successfully followed our inspiration and if it does not turn out well we have a tendency to think that we have lost our inspiration. But that is not true. There is successful work and work that fails but all of it is inspired.”

—Agnes Martin, “On the Perfection Underlying Life,” lecture, Institute of Contemporary Art, February 14, 1973

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 29 Oct 2018

Ruined

Posted by PJ under failure, genius, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.”

—Samuel Johnson, letter to Joseph Baretti, December 21, 1762

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Wed 3 Jan 2018

Laying an egg

Posted by PJ under art, failure, movies, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Sometimes you lay an egg, and people will say, It was too early. Audiences weren’t ready for it. Bullshit. If it’s good, it’s good. If it’s bad, it’s bad.”

—Billy Wilder, The Paris Review, Issue 138, Spring 1996

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Mon 10 Jul 2017

Risk averse

Posted by PJ under failure, quote of the day, risk
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Random quote of the day:

“One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”

—John W. Gardner, “The Ever-Renewing Society,” Saturday Review, No. 46, 1963

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 14 Apr 2017

Ambition

Posted by PJ under ambition, failure, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”

—Oscar Wilde, “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young,” The Chameleon, December 1894

 

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Fri 1 Jul 2016

Judgey

Posted by PJ under failure, judgment, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Half the fear of failure is of the judgement of false friends we feel compelled to impress but don’t like.”

—Alain de Botton, Twitter, 9/13/11”

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