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Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Business

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. Live your life and forget your age.
  • 2. At my age I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
  • 3. I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife at the age of 35 you could name two girlfriends.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Like most people my age my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes that's it.
  • 2. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
  • 3. I have an amazing relationship with food.

3 Anger

  • 1. I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger revenge or frustration.
  • 2. A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off roused me into productivity and creativity.
  • 3. He who is incapable of feeling strong passions of being shaken by anger of living in every sense of the word will never be a good actor.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 2. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 3. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.
  • 2. I studied architecture in New York. So really I was very moved like everyone else to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
  • 3. The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
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