"A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue."

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Source : "Failure and Rescue" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 2012.

Atul Gawande

#Differences Quotes #Risk Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Pain is just a feeling, and feelings aren't real.”

Source : Michelle Hodkin (2014). “The Retribution of Mara Dyer”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
“I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.”
“I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.”
“What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.”
“Music is my life. Music runs through my veins. Music inspires me. Music is a part of me. Music is all around us. Music soothes me. Music gives me hope when I lose faith. Music comforts me. Music is my refuge.”
“Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.”
“When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this”
“Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.”

Source : "Martin McDonagh, Our New Norman Mailer" by Lea Carpenter, bigthink.com.

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