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If you want to increase your success rate double your failure rate.

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Failure,

Author:

Thomas John Watson Sr.
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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. You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something or the new crop of actresses and think Aren't we kind of the same age?
  • 2. One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
  • 3. I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.
  • 2. It was amazing to me that all of a sudden I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
  • 3. In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are or how amazing you are it's the last game that everyone has seen.

3 Anger

  • 1. Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas is a glaring injustice which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.
  • 2. People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
  • 3. Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio and gets you to work – though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 2. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.
  • 3. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Form follows function.
  • 2. The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
  • 3. In Los Angeles by the time you're 35 you're older than most of the buildings.
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