"Things wonâ€™t go perfect. Itâ€™s all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes."

-- Michael Phelps

#Mistake Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Learning From Mistakes Quotes

“The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.”
“I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.”
“I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.”
“There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.”
“But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.”
“Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.”
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such”

Source : Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing
“I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.”

Source : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.53, Penguin

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