John Keats on failure

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.

Michael Jordanborn 1963

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordanborn 1963

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

Nasreddin1208–1284Often credited to Jim Horning

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