"Failure is not an option, so why talk about it?"

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Donalyn Miller

#Failure Is Not An Option Quotes

“How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.”
“It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.”
“I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.”

Source : "Poet of the Arab world" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002.
“Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet - there's no doubt about it. I've done a few of those conventions, and these people will know the lines!”

Source : "It's Greg Evigan vs. a Three-Headed Dog!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 28, 2005.
“Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.”
“Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.”
“Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason â€“ that is, reason divorced from experience.”

Source : Benjamin Wiker (2010). “10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor”, p.14, Regnery Publishing
“I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.”

Source : Courtney Summers (2015). “Please Remain Calm”, p.28, Macmillan

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