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Failure is inevitable along the path to innovation. Though you should try to minimize obstacles and setbacks under your control, you an never create a problem-free bubble for your people.
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177 |
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The risk the music invites us to take becomes a joyous adventure only when we stretch beyond our known capacities, while gladly affirming that we may fail.
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103 |
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Often the experience of a personal crisis or a failure will constitute a basis for the creation of a personal vision, which in turn becomes the framework for a life of possibility.
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174 |
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The line between a big win and failure is thin. You can get the important stuff right and still lose by not enduring long enough.
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021 |
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By attempting to engage with too broad a customer base, you fail to engage with any one customer base deeply.
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174 |
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In our efforts to feel rewarded with the least effort possible, we often fail to make progress in solving the hard problems that need our energy the most.
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180 |
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…you are not your work. Your work, or your art, is something you’ve made. It can fail, be sold, or be left behind, but it can’t be you.
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360 |
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What people are afraid of isn’t failure. It’s blame. Criticism. We choose not to be remarkable because we’re worried about criticism.
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046 |
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The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.
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059 |
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…the only thing holding you back from becoming the kind of person who changes things is this: lack of faith. Faith that you can do it. Faith that it’s worth doing. Faith that failure won’t destroy you.
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071 |