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I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Category: Failure

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
  • 2. I try to write lyrics so that they won't age which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
  • 3. I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Gary Ross is amazing. He's just – he always has a billion ideas of what he wants but has a very clear perspective also he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.
  • 2. I walk into a kids' store and it's amazing the types of instruments – little squeaky things rattling things spinning tops.
  • 3. I'm an actor so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that's happening and I want to cry. I'm doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very very long time – and it's amazing. A lot of people don't get to do that.

3 Anger

  • 1. You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
  • 2. Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
  • 3. On banks I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
  • 2. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.
  • 3. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture art and architecture and learned of the existence of the game of GO which I still play.
  • 2. The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
  • 3. Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
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