Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson, in Success and Failure

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When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Dylan Thomas, in Success and Failure

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Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower, in Success and Failure

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To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Liz Smith, in Success and Failure

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You see things and you say, "Why?" But I see things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part I, Act I (1921), in Success and Failure

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure

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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Leo Rosten, in Success and Failure

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened, it won't last.

Jules Renard, in Success and Failure

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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure

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Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.