Showing posts with label failure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label failure. Show all posts

Saturday, March 1, 2025

fail


 Elon's truck stuck here

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

failure


“There's nothing left to do but get drunk.”
- Franklin Pierce [1804-1869] on leaving the White House

Saturday, May 13, 2023

ranked best ever british sitcom

 


"Like with Monty Python, the critics initially hated Faulty Towers. Six out of ten executives wanted to scrap the whole production."
- John Cleese [born 1939]

Friday, March 25, 2022

admitted reluctantly to university



“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
- Thomas Watson Jr [1914-1993]

Monday, April 6, 2020

Ojigi


“Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.”
Soichiro Honda [1906-1991]

Monday, February 17, 2020

phoenix


“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela

Saturday, September 7, 2019

epic failure until he wasn't


"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Thursday, November 1, 2018

first lady


“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Sunday, February 11, 2018

very difficult to stop


Stones rolling downhill.


Saturday, October 21, 2017

not little


"Before you succeed, you must learn to fail."
- Shaq who like Michael Jordan was cut from his high-school basketball team

Sunday, May 28, 2017

failuretunity


"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."
- Richard Branson

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

"The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back."


"I haven't failed, just retreated."
- Dave Cappelle

Thursday, February 2, 2017

a comedian's life


"You don't learn anything from being funny; you only learn from not being funny."
- Jerry Lewis

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

the upside of failure


"Sometimes it's good to find out what the floor feels like, so you can reach for the ceiling."
- Seth Meyers

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

rich with learning opportunities


"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill

Saturday, September 3, 2016

not quite humiliated


... but embarrassed.

Winslow Homer failed to sell. He was thought of as the brooding, solitude, reclusive artist. 

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

mouse house


"If you want to accelerate your chances of success, you've got to double your failure rate."
- Michael Eisner

Sunday, May 22, 2016

motivation


"I'm more scared by failure than I am the accolades that come with success."
- Michael Stahan [born 1971]

Friday, April 29, 2016

On Golf


"Nobody owns it. You just lease it for a while."
- Phil Knight