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

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Failure,

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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. To be happy we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
  • 2. For students today only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
  • 3. 'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth success and most importantly fun.
  • 2. I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry or nauseous or asleep.
  • 3. I was about 14 and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son – who was more into basketball – didn't want to. It was amazing and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

3 Anger

  • 1. When anger rushes unrestrained to action like a hot steed it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
  • 2. I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor the challenge of tapping into that reaching down into that sadness or anger is very therapeutic.
  • 3. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
  • 2. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 3. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
  • 2. Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore is to make those sentiments more precise.
  • 3. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
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