“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”— Jane Hirshfield, amazon.com
“Success isn’t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren’t truly emotionally invested in your work.”— Biz Stone, amazon.com
“In any given time period, if you look back at whatever people thought was successful in that period, those things have generally been proven as failures anyway. So you have to learn to feel confident about the prospect of failing, because it’s so inevitable.”— Andrea Zittel, zittel.org
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”— James A. Michener, brainyquote.com
“And so it was that after spending his entire adult life building his business, revolutionizing the industry, setting a new standard for meat quality, creating a famous brand, and racking up a couple hundred million dollars in sales, Niman wound up with nothing. Indeed, you might say less than nothin…”— Bo Burlingham, amazon.com
“It isn't enough to pick a path — you must go down it. By doing so, you see things you couldn't possibly see when you started out; you may not like what you see, some of it may be confusing, but at least you will have, as we like to say, 'explored the neighborhood.' The key point here is that even if…”— Ed Catmull, amazon.com