Upton Sinclair on failure

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

I intend to do what little one man can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by your menaces.

Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!

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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