Babe Ruth said about striking out: "I'm that much closer to my next home run."
Thomas Edison said he never failed, he just "found a thousand ways that didn't work."
Ralph Waldo Emerson on failure: "Our greatest glory is not in ever failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
"Only dead fish swim with the stream." Anonymous
True story - Science project time in Avery's class. We bust our ass all weekend building a model MagLev train. A takes project in. Another kid has a pile of parts and a train that doesn't work and claims that he didn't fail, he just found a way it wouldn't work.
ReplyDeleteHey kid - you failed. My train is better than your train.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was best suited for greeting cards. What can I say?
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