“Each and everyone of us is a being of limited duration: all of us eventually go down to defeat. But as Earnest Hemingway saw so clearly, the ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“At these meetings, which were about the year 1655, divers experiments were suggested, discoursed, and tried with various successes, though no other account was taken of them but what particular persons perhaps did for the help of their own memories; so that many excellent things have been lost.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“I can guarantee you that everyone you look up to has faced failure and rejection thousands more times in their life than any sort of success. It's part of the path of making the thing. Maybe the most important. Your only job is to keep going.”— Jonny Sun, twitter.com