Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
We can't all and some of us don't. That's all there is to it.
I have always considered the price of perfection prohibitive and allowed mistakes as a part of the learning process. I prefer a dash of daring and persistence to perfection. I have always supported learning on the part of my team members by paying vigilant attention to each of their attempts, be they successful or unsuccessful.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Failure
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
"It is the kind of thing that happens to you when you are stupid," said Esa. "Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them."
— Agatha Christie
Stupidity
Error is the price we pay for progress.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Failure
Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
To the eye of failure success is an accident.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.